“Despite vigorous efforts, the U.S. government has been unsuccessful so far in finding key senior Iraqi scientists to support its prewar claims that former president Saddam Hussein was pursuing an aggressive program to develop nuclear, biological and chemical weapons,” according to the Washington Post. Sources said four senior scientists and more than a dozen at […]
July 2003
Depleted uranium (DU) has been used for decades in anti-tank shells because its ultra-dense. But DU has been a controversial, possibly toxic, method for piercing armor — blamed by some for so-called “Gulf War Syndrome,” by others for birth defects. A new alloy is emerging that could be a suitable substitute for DU, New Scientist […]
Just out of high school, thousands of miles from friends and parents, and isolated by language and culture from the people around them, young airmen stationed on a U.S. Air Force base in Europe can find life pretty lonely. But now the military’s fresh faces can get a bit of the comforts of home — […]
Did the Penatgon make a mistake in canceling its Policy Analysis Market — the instantly-notorious terrorism trading floor? “The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it’s grotesque,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) fumed, as he brought the project to the general public’s attention. But supporters of the program point […]
To Pentagon researchers, capturing and categorizing every aspect of a person’s life is only the beginning. LifeLog — the controversial Defense Department initiative to track everything about an individual — is just one step in a larger effort, according to a top Pentagon research director. Personalized digital assistants that can guess our desires should come […]
