Archive for the 'War' Category
North Korea Might Have Experimented with a Fusion Boost to Its Fission Weapons
February 4th, 2012Via: Nature: North Korea may have conducted two covert nuclear weapons tests in 2010, according to a fresh analysis of radioisotope data. The claim has drawn scepticism from some nuclear-weapons experts. But if confirmed, the analysis would double the number of tests the country is known to have conducted and suggest that North Korea is […]
Syria: Hundreds Dead After Government Unleashes Artillery Barrage on Homs
February 4th, 2012Via: Guardian: More than 200 people were reported to have been killed yesterday in the Syrian city of Homs as security forces continued their efforts to take back opposition-held areas on the eve of a vote by the UN security council on a much-disputed resolution on the country. Hundreds more were killed in shelling of […]
2010 Attack on VeriSign Just Recently Disclosed
February 2nd, 2012Via: Reuters: VeriSign Inc, the company in charge of delivering people safely to more than half the world’s websites, has been hacked repeatedly by outsiders who stole undisclosed information from the leading Internet infrastructure company. The previously unreported breaches occurred in 2010 at the Reston, Virginia-based company, which is ultimately responsible for the integrity of […]
A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors
February 2nd, 2012Via: YouTube: Experiments performed with a team of nano quadrotors at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania. Vehicles developed by KMel Robotics. Research Credit: jakdmsy
Bullets with Guidance Systems
January 31st, 2012Via: Wired: The U.S. military has been after self-guided bullets for years. Now, government researchers have finally made it happen: a bullet that can navigate itself a full mile before successfully nailing its target. The breakthrough comes courtesy of engineers at the government’s Sandia National Laboratories. They’ve successfully tested a prototype of the bullet at […]
Navy, Air Force Fund Research Into Neurological Processes Involved with Individuals Compromising Personal Values
January 30th, 2012“Contemporary American culture is the most powerful in history, and the most destructive of competitor cultures… It stresses comfort and convenience—ease—and it generates pleasure for the masses… The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, […]
Britain: Paratroopers Are Trained for Riot Control
January 29th, 2012Via: Telegraph: British troops are being trained in riot control tactics amid fears that violence and looting will return to Britain’s streets this summer. Hundreds of soldiers from 3rd battalion The Parachute Regiment spent last week learning how to contain and arrest “rioters” in a series of exercises mirroring last summers violence. Defence sources have […]
DARPA-Funded Hacker’s Tiny $50 Spy Computer Hides In Offices, Drops From Drones
January 29th, 2012Via: Forbes: Even more embarrassing than a student discovering your GPS tracking device on his car, as the FBI found out last year, is having to ask him to give the expensive piece of equipment back. So security researcher Brendan O’Connor is trying a different approach to spy hardware: building a sensor-equipped surveillance-capable computer that’s […]
Iran Hits Back at EU with Own Oil Embargo Threat
January 29th, 2012Via: Reuters: Fighting sanctions with sanctions in a test of strength with the West over its nuclear ambitions, Iran warned on Friday it may halt oil exports to Europe next week in a move calculated to hurt ailing European economies. … “They are the masters of bluffing,” one Mediterranean crude oil trader said of remarks […]
New Military Budget: Fewer Conventional Forces, More Special Forces and Terminator Robots
January 28th, 2012Via: Wired: About 80,000 Army soldiers and 20,000 Marines are getting downsized. Half of the Army’s conventional combat presence in Europe is packing up and ending its post-Cold War staycation. Replacing them, according to the $613 billion budget previewed by the Pentagon on Thursday: unconventional special-operations forces; new bombers; new spy tools; new missiles for […]
