Global Security Newswire

The White House announced yesterday that President George W. Bush has decided to reduce the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile by an additional 15 percent by 2012.

The new retirements come on top of those already undertaken over the past three years. In 2004, Bush said the United States would cut its arsenal — which includes a vast number of warheads in storage — in half by 2012.

However, the nuclear agency has retired weapons much more swiftly than anticipated and… more

The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, a division within DHS, is hoping that by employing independent experts it can garner a glimpse of the current nuclear and radiological detection approach from a terrorist's perspective...In effect, study group members might be asked to play terrorist, probing for information and physically testing the U.S. detection web. Homeland Security officials are looking for an "accurate emulation of potential threat actors, their likely source materials and courses of action," according to the DHS… more