- North Korea Conducts Underground Nuclear Bomb Test
- Homeland Security - New Disaster Shelter System Announced
- Crisis Preparedness - What We Can Learn From Israel
- Sci-Fi Writers Dream Up Plans for Homeland Security
- U.S. Cyberattack Console Aims to Turn Grunts into Hackers
- U.S. Will Rely On Allies in Terror Cases
- 10 Chemical Vials Stolen From University of Waterloo
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North Korea Conducts Underground Nuclear Bomb Test Posted: 24 May 2009 11:25 PM PDT
North Korea Conducts Underground Nuclear Bomb Test Tremors from a 4.7 magnitude artificial earthquake were detected just before ten o’clock local time, after North Korea detonated a bomb in a bunker six The rogue state, which had previously tested a nuclear weapon in October 2006, boasted that its latest test was more powerful “in terms of its “We successfully conducted another underground nuclear test on May 25 as part of measures aimed at strengthening our self-defence nuclear deterrent in every way,” said the state-run North Korean news wire. The test will “contribute to safeguarding our sovereignty and socialism and The test site was around 230 miles north east of Pyongyang, according to the United States Geological Survey. The location is just a few miles from where Yonhap, the South Korean news wire, also reported that a single ground-to-air hours later. The rogue state is not thought to have yet developed a missile Taro Aso, the Japanese prime minister, said he would set up a task force to handle the situation and seek an emergency meeting of the UN Security The US, meanwhile, said it was not able to confirm the reports of a test, and was seeking “more information from its allies” before making a Report: Pyongyang also test-fires short-range missile… Korea military forms crisis team… Japan says test ‘unacceptable’… Britain: ‘Breach’ of UN resolutions…
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Homeland Security - New Disaster Shelter System Announced Posted: 24 May 2009 09:32 PM PDT
Federal officials on Tuesday announced a new national shelter system to help locate temporary housing for victims of hurricanes and other natural The shelter system is a key part of preparations for hurricane Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Craig Fugate, the public to help prepare for storms, mostly by devising family evacuation plans. “We are only going to be as successful as the public is prepared,” Fugate said. “There are a lot of folks who are going to need very specific help that should Fugate was sworn into office on Tuesday.
He and Napolitano briefed governors and emergency-management officials from more than a dozen hurricane-prone states via video teleconference. They preparedness. The shelter system will form a nationwide database of thousands of places to go in an emergency. It includes a variety of housing, including trailers. “Often times in a really big disaster, people may have to leave the area while housing is rebuilt,” Napolitano said. FEMA also is developing a security communications system to allow officials to
via New disaster shelter system announced - Los Angeles Times.
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Crisis Preparedness - What We Can Learn From Israel Posted: 24 May 2009 09:26 PM PDT
Report suggests that America can learn much from Israeli example on public crisis preparedness. It’s a widely accepted truism in American politics that an engaged citizenry is the best defense. Yet, when it comes to emergency preparedness, the American public remains incredibly unengaged in the process, largely lacking both the knowledge and the opportunity to participate proactively and constructively. A report titled Public Role and Engagement In Counterterrorism Efforts: Implications of Israeli Practices for the U.S., prepared for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Science and Technology by the Homeland Security Institute (a federally-funded research and development center which serves as the Department’s think tank) examines both why that is the case, and how study of Israeli citizen involvement in crisis response might help US preparedness and “social resilience” improve. The study was co-authored by Dr. Sibel McGee (the principal investigator), Catherine Bott, Vikram Gupta, Kimberly Jones and Alex Karr. Published as a PDF document it has not yet been released on the web. “The successful management of emergency situations,” according to the report, “ requires not only competent emergency response personnel and prudent and effective emergency plans by the local/ state/federal government, but also a public that is equipped and empowered with knowledge and information.” The report cites Israel as a primary example of a nation with an effective track record in motivating and maintaining public mobilization in support of that “the level of public understanding of the terrorist threat and readiness for terror-induced emergencies is such that Israeli public has an impressive ability to bounce back from frequent terrorist attacks.” To accomplish this, according to the report, the Israeli government pursues a comprehensive and diverse program to bolster a strong public resilience and
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Sci-Fi Writers Dream Up Plans for Homeland Security Posted: 24 May 2009 07:04 PM PDT
The line between what’s real and what’s not is thin and shifting, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has decided to explore both sides. Boldly going where few government bureaucracies have gone before, the agency is enlisting the expertise of science fiction writers. Crazy? This week down at the Reagan Building, the 2009 Homeland Security Science & Technology Stakeholders Conference has been going on. Instead of just business around every corner, this felt at times more like a convention of futuristic yarn-spinners. Onstage in the darkened amphitheater, a Washington police commander said he’d like to have Mr. Spock’s instant access to information: At a disaster scene, A federal research director fantasized about a cellphone that could simultaneously text and detect biochemical attacks. Multiple cellphones in a crowd would confirm and track the spread. The master of ceremonies for the week was Greg Bear, the sci-fi novelist whose book “Quantico” featured FBI agents battling a designer plague targeting
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U.S. Cyberattack Console Aims to Turn Grunts into Hackers Posted: 24 May 2009 07:00 PM PDT
The U.S. military is putting together a suite of hacking tools that could one day make breaking into networks as easy for the average grunt as kicking down a That’s the word from Aviation Week, which snuck an unusual peek inside a “U.S. cyberwarfare attack laboratory.” There, researchers are building a “device” In recent years, Defense Department officials have thumped their chests, hard, about how good the Pentagon is at hacking enemy networks. But discussing A 2008 Danger Room post on an unclassified Air Force research project to give cyberwarriors “full control” of “any and all” computers set of a frenzy inside the service. Generals were pelted with questions about how such supposedly- sensitive information was allowed to escape into the public sphere. Since then, there have been increased calls within military circles to show off at least some of what the armed forces’ network attackers can do. It’s an effective way of detering potential foes online, the logic goes. The device described to Aviation Week is designed “to tap into satellite communications, voice over Internet, proprietary Scada [supervisory control and data acquisition] networks — virtually any wireless network.” And it would be able to do so in a way that makes sense to n00bs. via U.S.
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U.S. Will Rely On Allies in Terror Cases Posted: 24 May 2009 06:56 PM PDT
The United States is now relying heavily on foreign intelligence services to capture, interrogate and detain all but the highest-level terrorist suspects seized outside the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, according to current and former American government officials. The change represents a significant loosening of the reins for the United States, which has worked closely with allies to combat violent extremism since the 9/11 attacks but is now pushing that cooperation to new limits. In the past 10 months, for example, about a half-dozen midlevel financiers and logistics experts working with Al Qaeda have been captured and are being held by intelligence services in four Middle Eastern countries after the United States provided information that led to their arrests by local security services, a former American counterterrorism official said.
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10 Chemical Vials Stolen From University of Waterloo Posted: 24 May 2009 03:27 PM PDT
Police are searching for 10 vials of a deadly substance after it was stolen from a group of University of Waterloo students who were doing research at a nearby river. Students were conducting water tests at Moyer’s Landing Park along Grand River in Cambridge around 9 a.m. Saturday when they noticed 10 vials of sodium azide had been taken from a cooler at the research site, said Waterloo regional police. The stolen goods are being described as clear liquid inside clear glass vials with vacuum seal tops. Each vial contains about 160 mL of the chemical. According to the Ontario Poison Centre, the chemical can enter humans through skin contact, inhalation, ingestion and intravenous injection. While it may produce a pungent odour when reacting to metals or notices the smell, it may be too late. Symptoms of consumption include low blood pressure, diarrhea, vomiting, central nervous system depression causing sleepiness or even comas, chest pain, heart rhythm problems, shortness of breath, seizures and acute heart attacks. Exposure can be fatal if left untreated.
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