With increasing numbers of incidents, the use of chemical weapons (CW) has become a growing…
Legislative
The U.S. and the European Union announced coordinated sanctions on Russia Tuesday for the poisoning…
Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) Chairman Jack Reed (D-RI) and Ranking Member Jim Inhofe (R-OK) announced the subcommittee assignments…
Created by Congress in 2006, the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) authorizes DHS to determine…
At a number of closed nuclear plants around the country, spent nuclear fuel assemblies remain…
Overcoming that deficiency will require the deployment of robust counter-UAS (CUAS). Such systems are already…
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today announced the…
The National Emergency Management Association NEMA Mid-Year Forum will be held March 20-24, 2017 in Alexandria, Virginia.…
While numerous chemical plans are operated safely, in the last 10 years more than 1,500…
The Senate passed a bipartisan bill on Nov. 17 to make anthrax vaccines available to…
President Barak Obama this week officially continued Executive Order 13382, which declares a national emergency…
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) has announced its support for the U.S. Senate’s…
After several years of discussions, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the U.S. Department of Defense…
Experts at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and the Council for a Livable…
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations conduct a hearing on continuing…
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has made available to the public an unclassified version…
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has released its Project Aim 2020 report, detailing a staff-developed…
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has requested $1,032.2 million in its Fiscal Year 2016 budget…
Topics in this issue include biosecurity in Australia, IED threat in Uganda, TRIA terrorism insurance,…
Last week, U.S Rep. Curt Clawson, R-FL, a member of the Committee on Homeland Security, introduced H.R.…