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The Bushehr nuclear reactor, widely believed to be part of Iran's nuclear-weapons program, was supposed to power up in August. It didn't. One Iranian official blamed the weather. Now a more likely cause has emerged: the Stuxnet cyber worm discovered last June to have infected thousands of industrial
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Date:
9/24/2010
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recently turned what had been a simmering debate over the future of the U.S. military into a full-fledged conflagration. In a series of speeches he questioned both the long-term viability and the affordability of the current force structure. He noted the operational
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Date:
6/7/2010
Friday, a report in the Washington Post described an incident in which one agency of the U.S. government attacked another one and, in the process, an allied country. This was not a case of friendly fire. Rather, virtually the entire security apparatus of the United States including the Departments
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Date:
3/22/2010
On February 2, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Admiral Dennis Blair, USN (Ret.) and his main subordinates from the CIA, DIA and FBI, appeared before Congress to deliver their annual threat assessment. According to Admiral Blair, the nation’s cyber infrastructure is “severely threatened.”
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Date:
2/5/2010


