Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
November 2004 - United States Special Weapons News
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- Course Trains 'Select Few' on Biological Warfare Agents AFPS 30 Nov 2004 -- The narrow gravel path leads to a cluster of mobile tactical shelters at Fort Detrick's "Area B," 400 acres of farmland on this Maryland base. A brown sign marks the Field Identification of Biological Warfare Agents, or FIBWA, Laboratory Training Site. Inside, the air conditioning is blasting while Top 40 music plays from a portable stereo atop a file cabinet. Two laboratories, each with four workstations, adjoin a central tactical shelter that serves as a conference room.
- U.S. Hopes for Productive Meeting of Chemical Weapons Conference Washington File 30 Nov 2004 -- The U.S. goal for the Chemical Weapons Convention is "not just a convention that is universal, but a convention that is universally implemented," according to a U.S. ambassador.
- U-S / BALLISTIC MISSILES VOA 29 Nov 2004 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell recently accused Iran of working on technology that would allow its ballistic missiles to carry nuclear warheads, a charge Tehran has denied. Experts in arms control and proliferation name Iran and North Korea as two countries that can produce missiles and sell the technology, therefore threatening their neighbors and other nations around the world.
- U.S. Warns Verification Focus Would Delay Fissile Ban Treaty Washington File 01 Nov 2004 -- The Bush administration supports negotiating a treaty to ban production of fissile material for nuclear weapons, even though the United States believes such an agreement could not be effectively verified, according to the U.S. special representative for nuclear nonproliferation.
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