Tweet Two members of a Georgia militia group on Wednesday entered pleas of not guilty to charges that they planned to produce and disseminate a deadly biotoxin in attacks aimed at undermining federal and state governments, the Associated Press reported. Ray Adams and Samuel Clump denied they had plotted to generate ricin from castor beans. [...]
Tweet Emergency workers recently conducted a tabletop training exercise in Boston aimed at preparing them for a potential terrorist strike involving a radiological “dirty bomb,” the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration announced on Thursday. The semiautonomous Energy Department office and the FBI organized the program at Children’s Hospital Boston as part of the federal agencies’ [...]
Tweet WASHINGTON — The United States still lacks an effective strategy to prevent or counter the potential loss or diversion of a weapon of mass destruction somewhere in the world, according to a senior Defense Department official (see GSN, Feb. 25). (Jun. 14) – A U.S. Army soldier clothed in WMD protection gear completes a [...]
Tweet Tuesday June, 21, 2011 A Massachusetts resident on Monday received a 15-year prison sentence for possession of ricin and for threatening a federal official, the Associated Press reported. Michael Crooker, 57, admitted in March to illegally possessing ricin, a potential bioterrorism agent that is lethal in very small quantities and has no known antidote. [...]
Tweet 2 June 2011 – Cases of haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) and enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) continue to rise in Germany. Ten countries have now reported cases to WHO/Europe. As of 31 May 2011, nine patients in Germany have died of HUS, and six of EHEC. One person in Sweden has also died. There are [...]
Tweet A large-scale antiterrorism drill last week met its goal of preventing any mock radiological “dirty bombs” from being smuggled into New York City, Newsday reported on Tuesday (see GSN, April 8). The five-day exercise was carried out under the federally funded Securing the Cities initiative, which is aimed at deterring a radiological or nuclear [...]
Tweet A pair of academics in Idaho have won a federal grant for development of a mathematical model to determine the likely place of origin of hazardous agents and their movement through the air, the Boise State University Arbiter reported yesterday . The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency and National Science Foundation funded work on [...]
Tweet The U.S. Homeland Security Department is seeking $57 billion in funding for the upcoming fiscal year for programs that include a monitoring system for potential bioterrorism threats and acquisition of additional radiation detectors to safeguard population centers against a potential nuclear attack. “Today’s threat picture features an adversary who evolves and adapts quickly and [...]
Tweet Former Libyan Justice Minister Mustafa Abdel Galil warned yesterday that besieged dictator Muammar Qadhafi could use chemical and biological weapons against opposition forces in a last ditch effort to retain control of his regime, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported. “At the end when he’s really pressured, he can do anything,” Galil said to al-Jazeera. “I think [...]
Tweet Terror threats appear to be on the rise as FEMA has rushed a $1 Billion order of dehydrated food in the event of attacks on domestic targets in the US. This is also coming on the heels of one of the largest terror drills performed by the US Navy on American soil, as Operation [...]
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