Pre 9-11, the security community in Europe assumed that individual terrorists wanted to attack from afar and take part in more than one operation. The danger had been mainly from the Provisional IRA and Basque separatists. Read more
Lungren: probing last
line of defense
“The Last Line of Defense: Federal, State, and Local Efforts to Prevent Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism Within the United States” will be subject of a hearing on July 26 by the U.S. House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Security Technologies, which is chaired by Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA).
Among those scheduled to testify at the forum, which will be held at 10 a.m. in room 311 of the Cannon House Office Building, are Warren M. Stern, director of the DHS’s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office.
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Bushehr, Iran (AHN) – A sophisticated computer code dubbed the “Stuxnet worm” has hit computers in Iran, particularly those inside its first nuclear power plant in the southern port city of Bushehr that is expected to go operational in October. Iranian …
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