White House Is Rethinking Nuclear Policy – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in February 28th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Nuclear, bombs, Chemical Attack, Chemical Weapons, Decisions, Embrace, Iran, New Movement, North-Korea, Nuclear Arsenal, Nuclear Policy, Nuclear Threats, Nuclear Weapons, Nytimes, Obama, United States, White House

Conventional for conventional, and nonconventional for nonconventional – as in bombs. A country attacked with chemical weapons may respond with nuclear weapons – nonconventional for nonconventional.
Mr. Obama’s decisions on nuclear weapons come as conflicting pressures in his defense policy are intensifying. His critics argue that his embrace of a new movement to eliminate nuclear weapons [...]

Soviet Chemical Weapons Expert: Dumping Was ‘Common Practice’ – Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2010

Posted by Matt in February 7th, 2010 | no comment

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A Soviet chemical weapons expert says he is nearly certain that a report claiming the Soviet military dumped chemical weapons and radioactive waste in the Baltic Sea during the 1990s is accurate, RFE/RL’s Tatar-Bashkir Service reports.
Soviet Chemical Weapons Expert: Dumping Was ‘Common Practice’ – Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2010

Remembering the day “The Day After” aired

Posted by Matt in November 20th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Nuclear, War, 100 Million, Abc News, Abc Tv, Adult Population, American Citizens, Audience, Chemical Weapons, Cold-War, Nuclear Confrontation, Nuclear War, nuclearwar, People, Population Of The United States, Remembering The Day, terrorists, Tv Movie, Viewpoint, Worry

Most of us don’t worry about nuclear war the way we did when there was a cold war to go along with it. Today, thanks to terrorists and chemical weapons, war is smaller, but deadlier.
But it was on this day in 1983 that ABC premiered the TV movie, “The Day After.” Billed [...]

MEMRI: Iran is Planning to Attack the Gulf Countries; Iran is Producing Chemical Weapons

Posted by Matt in October 6th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Iran, Al Qods, Arab Gulf States, Cells, Chemical Weapons, Embassies, Gulf Countries, Intelligence, Iran, iranian, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Kuwait, Memri, Operatives, Qassem, Revolutionary Guards, Sabotage, Senior Officials, Undercover Agent

On October 5, 2009, Alarabiya.net posted an interview with an Arab Ahwazi man who was presented as a former undercover agent for the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). The man claimed that 40,000 well-trained operatives, mostly Shi’ites, are in the service of Iran in the Arab Gulf states – 3,000 of them in Kuwait alone. [...]

Should you be thinking about potassium iodide tablets?

Posted by Matt in September 11th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Nuclear, 2012, Amazon, Chemical Bombs, Chemical Weapons, Critical Juncture, Fallout, Fissionable Material, Hamas, hezbollah, iranians, Israeli Cities, Likelihood, Nuclear Bombs, Nuclear Capability, Potassium Iodide, Potassium Iodide Tablets, Radioactive Iodine, Syria Lebanon, Thyroid, Thyroid Gland, Western Intelligence Services

ANALYSIS / Clock is ticking for Iran as Israel appears ready for strike
This month will mark a critical juncture in Iran’s race for nuclear capability. The timetable is getting ever shorter: Most Western intelligence services share the assessment that over the course of 2010, Iran will accumulate sufficient fissionable material to produce two or [...]

Iran ‘offers missiles to Lebanon’

Posted by Matt in September 9th, 2009 | no comment

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While there has been no independent confirmation that Hezbollah has received chemical arms or that the Lebanese army is about to receive Iranians missiles, the reports have heightened tension in a region where both sides are braced for conflict.
Hezbollah has maintained an ambiguous silence about the report it has had chemical weapons since December 2008, [...]

Hizballah deploys chemical and biological weapons near Israeli border – Arab, European sources

Posted by Matt in September 9th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Israel, Middle East, Arab, Bad Guys, Border, Chemical And Biological Weapons, Chemical Shells, Chemical Warheads, Chemical Weapons, European Sources, hezbollah, Hizballah, Intelligence Sources, Israeli Intelligence, Middle East, Military Capabilities, Military Forces, Range Missiles, Strategic Vision, Terrorist Group

European intelligence sources reported on Sept. 1, that Hizballah had recently boosted its military capabilities with a supply of chemical shells and short-range missiles with chemical warheads and was about to receive biological weapons as well. One source said that the Lebanese terrorist group is now one of the most sophisticated and best trained military [...]

Hezbollah stockpiles 40,000 rockets near Israel border – Times Online

Posted by Matt in August 4th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Israel, Middle East, War, Beirut, Chemical Weapons, Fateful Decision, Gaza, hezbollah, Iran, Israeli Attack, Israeli Cities, Massive Retaliation, Missile Attack, No Doubt, Nuclear War, nuclearwar, Planners, Point In Time, rockets, Southern Suburbs, Stockpiles, Syria, Tel Aviv, Unprecedented Scale

It helps to understand why a war might start between Hezbollah and Israel, and what are the implications.
At this point in time the most likely scenario for war between Hezbollah and Israel would be an Israeli attack on Iran. A response from Hezbollah would not be immediate. Most likely a coordinated attack from Hezbollah, Syria [...]

Biological Weapons Keep Syria Within Axis Of Evil

Posted by Matt in May 12th, 2009 | 1 comment

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Syria has reportedly rebuilt the structure that housed the reactor bombed by Israel last year and has turned the site into a facility for manufacturing chemical and biological weapons.
Official sources stated Syria had significantly expanded its biological and chemical weapons program by doing so.
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Syria Seeks To Pass More Gas

Posted by Matt in February 21st, 2009 | no comment

Published in Syria, Ballistic Missile, Chemical Warheads, Chemical Weapons, Cluster Bombs, Conventional Warheads, Future War, High Explosives, Israel, Israeli Casualties, Israelis, Range Missiles, Syria, Syrian Chemical Weapons, Syrians

Last year Syria ran tests on its ballistic missile inventory, with over a dozen missiles fired. Israel has made no secret of the fact that, in a future war with Syria, they estimate that there would be as many as 3,300 Israeli casualties (including up to 200 dead). That’s if Syria just used its long [...]