Special Report: How China Steals Our Military Secrets
On a hot Florida day late in 2005, Ko-Suen "Bill" Moo was preparing for the endgame of a covert operation he'd been orchestrating for nearly two years. He had arrived in Fort Lauderdale at 5 am on Nov. 7, as the city was recovering from the ... [... more]
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The Army's New Gear: Why Troops Don't Like It
By 2015, the Pentagon envisions a seamless communications network that connects Washington to the front lines in real time. Much of the technology exists today. Soldiers equipped with new radios as part of the Land Warrior System (1) are linked ... [... more]
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Special Report: Pm's Original Investigation
FACT: One of the clearest, most widely seen pictures of the doomed jet's undercarriage was taken by photographer Rob Howard and published in New York magazine and elsewhere (opening page). PM sent a digital scan of the original photo to Ronald ... [... more]
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Increasingly, such beliefs are migrating from the fringes and into the mainstream. French author Thierry Meyssan?s The Big Lie, which argues that the U.S. military used one of its own guided missiles to attack the Pentagon, was a bestseller in ... [... more]
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Plus: Dna Puts Forsenics On Trial
Bite-mark evidence was first used in court in 1954, and has been helping win convictions, including that of serial killer Ted Bundy, ever since. Few dispute that every person has a unique arrangement of teeth. The question is whether a bite mark ... [... more]
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Archives: Big Fish Are Disappearing
The commission's report outlines what it believes can be done to strike a balance between the economic needs of the fisheries industry and the more basic human need to maintain the sustainability of an important source of food. Part of the ... [... more]
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Plus: High-Tech, Blind Blackhawk Landings In Iraq
We're about 75 feet off the ground and 150 feet from the Humvees when the BlackHawk's rotors kick up dust and sand. ?Call the dust,? pilot Scott Brown orders over the headset to his crew chief and medic. Both are hanging out the windows, peering ... [... more]
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Plus: Pentagon's Global Strike Missiles Attack Anywhere ...
The craft is the same size and shape as a Joint Air-to- Surface Standoff Missile, so it can be attached to a B-52 or fighter jet. It runs on standard JP-7 jet fuel, not on rocket fuel, so it fits in neatly with the military's existing logistical ... [... more]
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North Korea's Biochemical Threat
Daniel Pinkston, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, Calif., says most assessments of North Korea's WMD capabilities point to a chemical weapons stockpile of some 5000 tons of ... [... more]
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Plus: Breaking Down Kim Jong Il's Toxic Arsenal
Compared to nukes, biological and chemical agents offer mass destruction "on the cheap," argues Michael Stebbins of the Federation of American Scientists. Below, a sampling of Kim Jong Il's toxic arsenal. Why it's a threat: Phosgene, like ... [... more]
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Combating Satellite Terrorism, Diy Style
Space CHOP was formed in 1999, and one of its earliest experiments used a UHF generator and a small amplifier purchased from an electronics store. The team pieced together an antenna out of copper wire, PVC piping and other easily obtained ... [... more]
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Plus: Pentagon's Internal Weapons Tech War
Unlike the DD(X), the LCS isn't being built for 1000 different operations against 100 different enemies. Instead, each LCS will concentrate on a specific coastal mission: antisub warfare, mine clearance or ship-to-ship fights. Every LCS comes ... [... more]
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