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Navy's nuclear director will discuss national security
04-09-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Adm. Kirkland Donald, the fourth highest-ranking U.S. Navy officer and director of the Navy's nuclear program, will talk about "Technical Education and National Security" at MIT on Wednesday, April 11.
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04-24-2007 · EurekAlert!
An independent study group, convened by AAAS's Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy, has issued a report on the proposed Reliable Replacement Warhead and its role in the future US nuclear weapons program.Bruce Tarter, head of the study group and a former director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, will discuss the report in a teleconference with reporters at 10:00 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, 24 April.
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The thwarted 2006 London airline bomb plot not only heightened summer travel fears and created new passenger screening inconveniences, but also greatly underscored the urgent need for improved national security measures. Now, professor Joe Wang, director of the Center for Biosensors and Bioelectronics at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, has developed a highly sensitive technology to rapidly detect liquid peroxide explosives in as little as 15 seconds.
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- Steven Vigdor Named Brookhaven Lab's Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear and Particle Physics
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