http://weapons.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for weapons en Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:40:09 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2043362 unknown@Netscape.com For countries - small, middling, or great - acquiring nuclear weapons is all about the most basic requirement: the survival of the regime or nation. Joining the "nuclear club" has proved an effective strategy for survival. Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:40:09 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2043362NuclearweaponswarregimeiransurvivalNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2043184 unknown@Netscape.com A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt - more than a century ago. Embedded deep under its blubber was a 3 1/2-inch arrow-shaped projectile that has given researchers insight into the whale's age, estimated between 115 and 130 years old. Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:31:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2043184Bowheadwhalealaska19thcenturyweaponsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2040466 unknown@Netscape.com For countries - small, middling, or great - acquiring nuclear weapons is all about the most basic requirement: the survival of the regime or nation. Joining the "nuclear club" has proved an effective strategy for survival. Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:16:28 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2040466NuclearweaponsforeignpolicypowerwarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2035239 unknown@Netscape.com Lessons we should have learned since 9/11.... Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:30:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2035239NuclearweaponsiranGOPrepublicansnukesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2031378 unknown@Netscape.com In a surprise meeting in Berlin, Germany's foreign minister met privately with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator. But western hopes for progress were met with intransigence by Iran. Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:02:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2031378iranberlinSteinmeierNuclearweaponsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2032709 unknown@Netscape.com In a surprise meeting in Berlin, Germany's foreign minister met privately with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator. But western hopes for progress were met with intransigence by Iran. Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:02:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2032709iranberlinSteinmeierNuclearweaponsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2032760 unknown@Netscape.com In a surprise meeting in Berlin, Germany's foreign minister met privately with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator. But western hopes for progress were met with intransigence by Iran. Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:02:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2032760iranberlinSteinmeierNuclearweaponsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2032810 unknown@Netscape.com In a surprise meeting in Berlin, Germany's foreign minister met privately with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator. But western hopes for progress were met with intransigence by Iran. Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:02:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2032810iranberlinSteinmeierNuclearweaponsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2032862 unknown@Netscape.com In a surprise meeting in Berlin, Germany's foreign minister met privately with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator. But western hopes for progress were met with intransigence by Iran. Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:02:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2032862iranberlinSteinmeierNuclearweaponsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2032917 unknown@Netscape.com In a surprise meeting in Berlin, Germany's foreign minister met privately with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator. But western hopes for progress were met with intransigence by Iran. Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:02:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2032917iranberlinSteinmeierNuclearweaponsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2033016 unknown@Netscape.com In a surprise meeting in Berlin, Germany's foreign minister met privately with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator. But western hopes for progress were met with intransigence by Iran. Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:02:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2033016iranberlinSteinmeierNuclearweaponsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2033061 unknown@Netscape.com In a surprise meeting in Berlin, Germany's foreign minister met privately with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator. But western hopes for progress were met with intransigence by Iran. Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:02:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2033061iranberlinSteinmeierNuclearweaponsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2010100 unknown@Netscape.com China is modernizing its military in ways that give it options for launching surprise attacks, potentially far from its borders, the Pentagon said Friday. Fri, 25 May 2007 23:37:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2010100chinamilitarybuildUPweaponsRepublicofNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2009664 unknown@Netscape.com "Analysis of China's weapons acquisition ... suggest(s) China is looking beyond Taiwan as it builds its force," states the Defense Department's annual report to Congress on "Military Power of the People's Republic of China." Fri, 25 May 2007 23:36:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2009664chinamilitarybuildUPweaponsRepublicofNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1969195 unknown@Netscape.com "The nuclearization of the world," Langewiesche writes, "has become the human condition, and it cannot be changed." It is with that grim but realistic assumption in mind that he sets out on a long expedition, from Washington to Holland, Pakistan, Russia, Georgia and Turkey, in order to discover just how hard or easy it now is fo Sun, 20 May 2007 07:28:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1969195terrorismNuclearweaponswilliamLangewieschebookreviewPoliticsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1912503 unknown@Netscape.com It's funny how a gun can in stantly change your perspec tive on things, make you wish you could rewrite history. State Rep. Michael DeBose, a southside Cleveland Democrat, discovered this lesson the night of May 1, when he thought he was going to die. That's the night he wished he had that gun vote back. Wed, 16 May 2007 17:04:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1912503MuggedliberalchangesmindAboutconceledweaponsguncontrolNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1862071 unknown@Netscape.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) -- The world commemorated the tenth anniversary of the entry into force of the Chemical Weapons Convention on April 29, but in a very bad omen, the next day terrorists used chemical weapons in an attack in Iraq. Sun, 13 May 2007 04:54:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1862071ChemicalweaponsiraqirankurdistanchlorineNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1781478 unknown@Netscape.com After the recent ineffectiveness at finding peace in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East, the United Nations has been under serious fire from the world at-large. Dan Craig looks at the charter and thinks the situation might be worse than any of us imagined. Mon, 07 May 2007 20:30:39 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1781478UnitedNationsSecurityCounciliraqweaponsofmassdestructionreformNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1738300 unknown@Netscape.com Bill Moyers lost me during the first few minutes of his excellent PBS special, "Buying the War." Not because it was painful to watch - blood boils at about the same temperature as water, and you could have made strong tea out of mine - but because my life became stranded at the very place where his story begins: "Four years ago th Fri, 04 May 2007 12:04:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1738300weaponsofmassdeceptionNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1722782 unknown@Netscape.com The excerpt here is a small piece of the forthcoming book by Lonnie Story, "Without a Shot Fired: The Dustin Brim Story." This is a heart-wrenching true story - about Dustin Brim - a 22 yr. Old U.S. Army soldier that died shortly after being deployed to Iraq - and some stuff called Depleted Uranium. Thu, 03 May 2007 19:19:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1722782dustimbrimdepletedUraniumweaponsdumilitaryNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1689591 unknown@Netscape.com U.S. Special Forces may soon have a strange and powerful new weapon in their arsenal: a pair of high-tech binoculars 10 times more powerful than anything available today, augmented by an alerting system that literally taps the wearer's prefrontal cortex to warn of furtive threats detected by the soldier's subconscious. Tue, 01 May 2007 11:54:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1689591pentagonweaponsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1573325 unknown@Netscape.com After a Chinese interceptor smashed into a target satellite in January, Bush administration officials criticized the test as a destabilizing development. What the officials did not say is that as the Chinese were preparing to launch their antisatellite weapon, American intelligence agencies had issued reports about the preparations being made... Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:31:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1573325U.S.chinaAntisatellitemissilespaceweaponsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1545259 unknown@Netscape.com The Democrats may not want to hear about Iran, but our troops in Iraq have an earful to say about it. In both formal briefings and informal conversations with soldiers when I was in Baghdad, the subject of Iranians arms and influence constantly cropped up. Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:04:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1545259iraniraqweaponsconnectionNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1500897 unknown@Netscape.com Security guards at a nuclear weapons plant in Texas went on strike this week over new fitness requirements that could cost many their jobs. BWXT Pantex in Carson County outside Amarillo is the only nuclear weapons assembly plant in the United States. The contractor responsible for the plant says the strikers were replaced when the walkout began Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:19:25 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1500897GuardsStrikeatNuclearweaponsplantNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1485091 unknown@Netscape.com Kansas' concealed carry law took effect January 1, 2007. On January 19, two armed men burst into a gas station owned by Dean Yee. According to police, they twice demanded money from Yee while holding him at gunpoint. A customer inside the store, however, had a concealed-carry permit. He shouted for the robbers to drop their weapons. When they refus Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:07:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1485091robberybreakInsrightTocarryweaponsIntrudersdefendgunsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1486041 unknown@Netscape.com How can a teacher schooled in 20th-century science prepare today's high school students for stem cells, avian flu and other biological issues of the 21st century? Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:30:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1486041StemcellsavianFluBiologicalweaponsteachingScienceteacherNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1403160 unknown@Netscape.com Sunni militants are being armed with Iranian-made munitions, US military spokesman Maj Gen William Caldwell told reporters in Baghdad. These include mortar rounds and rocket-propelled grenades, he said. There was no immediate reaction from the government in mainly Shia Iran which has been accused of arming fellow Shia militants in Iraq in the past. Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:14:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1403160iraniraqterrorismweaponstrainingNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1388854 unknown@Netscape.com The US and its allies started the psychological preparation of world public opinion for the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons to resolve 'the Iranian problem'. The US propaganda machine is working hard to create the impression that a 'surgically precise' use of the nuclear weapon with only limited consequences is possible. Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:02:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1388854iranwarNuclearweaponsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1281843 unknown@Netscape.com Iran has more than tripled its ability to produce enriched uranium in the last three months, potentially enabling the Islamic regime to develop a nuclear bomb by 2009, much sooner than previously though, a media report said on Tuesday. Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:24:42 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1281843irancentrifugesNuclearweaponsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1202877 unknown@Netscape.com Workers scouring the site of a World War II chemical weapons training camp in northeast Alabama have found 13 mortars filled with liquid, but they have yet to determine if any of them contained hazardous agents, the military said Wednesday. Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:44:55 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1202877shellsfoundChemicalweaponscampNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1138784 unknown@Netscape.com Anti-gun Democrats are trying to make up for lost time by reintroducing legislation intended to ban so-called "assault" weapons, a Second Amendment group warns. Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:08:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/11387842ndAmendmentguncontrolassaultweaponsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1124252 unknown@Netscape.com After more than 30 years of civil war, ending in 1998, the Cambodian gouvernment destroyed 125,000 weapons across the country.In this time Neil Wilford, a small arms specialist with the European Union, and British artist Sasha Constable, saw an opportunity, and decided to create The Peace Art Project Cambodia (PAPC) in November 2003. Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:46:36 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1124252weaponsgunswarcambodiafurnitureNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1125762 unknown@Netscape.com Physicians from around the world urged the publisher of The Lancet medical journal to cut its links to weapons sales, calling on the editors to find another publisher if Reed Elsevier refused to stop hosting arms fairs. Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:15:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1125762MDsurgepublisherToseverweaponstiesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1050387 unknown@Netscape.com BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents in western Iraq set off three chlorine gas car bombs, U.S. forces said on Saturday, weeks after two similar attacks sparked fears of a new campaign using unconventional weapons in Iraq. Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:37:22 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1050387iraqbaghdadbombsunconventionalweaponsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/944208 unknown@Netscape.com U.S. and South Korean war games on the divided peninsula have the effect of holding a gun to North Korea's head and could hamper efforts to negotiate an end to its nuclear weapons development, Pyongyang said. Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:42:49 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/944208NorthKoreawaramericaNuclearweaponspyongyangNews http://web2announcer.com/go/827448 unknown@Netscape.com The former chief of Cuba's military medical services is calling for international weapons inspections of a secret underground lab near Havana, where he says the government is creating biological warfare agents like the plague, botulism and yellow fever. Sat, 03 Mar 2007 18:27:42 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/827448cubaBiologicalweaponswmdRobertoOrtegaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/828400 unknown@Netscape.com More than 1 million rounds of ammunition, a cache of weapons and a tunnel were found at a man's home after an explosive fire that forced a neighborhood evacuation, authorities said Friday. Sat, 03 Mar 2007 06:45:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/828400AmmoweaponstunnelCaliforniaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/720630 unknown@Netscape.com FORTY-SIX countries pledged overnight to work to a worldwide ban on cluster bombs overnight, with the world's biggest cluster-bomb makers absent from the vote. Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:52:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/720630clusterbombswarweaponsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/599214 unknown@Netscape.com resident Bush said Wednesday he's certain the Iranian government is supplying deadly weapons used by fighters in Iraq against U.S. troops, even if he can't prove that the orders came from top Iranian leaders. "I can say with certainty that the Quds Force, a part of the Iranian government, has provided these sophisticated IEDs (improvised ex Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:04:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/599214bushiranweaponsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/564683 unknown@Netscape.com At Sunday's briefing in Baghdad, U.S. officials attempted to tie the Iranian government to attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq, claiming that "Iran's export of the bombs to Iraqi Shiite militias was a deliberate strategy of the regime." But today, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Peter Pace disavowed this claim. He told reporters he has no ev Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:22:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/564683peterpaceIraniangovernmentexplosivesweaponsiraqNews http://web2announcer.com/go/560659 unknown@Netscape.com The FBI had more than 300 weapons and laptops lost or stolen in just under four years, and some of the computers contained sensitive or classified information, the U.S. Justice Department inspector general said on Monday in a highly critical report. Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:40:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/560659FBIcRITICIZED320MissingweaponsLaptopsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/351699 unknown@Netscape.com Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's security advisers have been amassing weapons in Gaza and the West Bank to build up a wider range of forces than just the presidential guard, Palestinian security sources said. Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:14:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/351699MahmoudAbbasGazaweaponsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/345608 unknown@Netscape.com Iran is currently installing 3,000 centrifuges, a top lawmaker said Saturday in an announcement underlining that the country will continue to develop its nuclear program despite U.N. sanctions. Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:43:32 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/345608iranNuclearprogramweaponsUnitedNationsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/263896 unknown@Netscape.com China's recent test of an anti-satellite weapon that pulverised an old weather satellite was a big mistake. The move makes a mockery of China's long-standing opposition to such capabilities in the hands of other powers. More significantly, it threatens to undermine an uneasy moratorium on the development of space weapons that has largely endured si Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:37:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/263896chinaspaceweaponsraceamericaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/253985 unknown@Netscape.com New on the Internet: a community of people who believe the government is beaming voices into their minds. They may be crazy, but the Pentagon has pursued a weapon that can do just that. Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:15:19 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/253985mindcontrolgovernmentpentagonweaponsmkultraciaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/246051 unknown@Del.icio.us.com No description for this story Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:30:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/246051historywarweaponsphotosww2 http://web2announcer.com/go/232632 unknown@Netscape.com WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two submachine guns, ammunition and body armor were among equipment stolen from an FBI agent's sport utility vehicle, authorities said. Weapons taken Jan. 13 in southwest Washington from the vehicle issued to the agent also included two rifles and a .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun, the FBI said. Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:57:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/232632weaponsTakenfromD.C.FBIagentscartwosubmachinegunsammunitionandbodyarmorNews http://web2announcer.com/go/232633 unknown@Netscape.com China successfully carried out its first test of an anti-satellite weapon last week, signaling its resolve to play a major role in military space activities and bringing expressions of concern from Washington and other capitals, the Bush administration said Thursday. Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:13:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/232633chinaweaponsantisatelliteNews http://web2announcer.com/go/183129 unknown@Netscape.com WASHINGTON - The U.S. military has sold forbidden equipment at least a half-dozen times to middlemen for countries - including Iran and China - who exploited security flaws in the Defense Department's surplus auctions. The sales include fighter jet parts and missile components. Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:59:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/183129chinairanmilitaryusweaponsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/143615 unknown@Netscape.com A text file. That's what banks use to freeze the assets of terrorists, drug traffickers, and nuclear weapons dealers. A dot txt downloadable from the U.S. Treasury website. Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:43:51 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/143615BanksassetsfrozenterroristsdrugtraffickersweaponsdealerstextfileofacNews