CSE is ranked as the no 1 think tank on environment policy in the global south according to latest edition of the Global Go To Think Tank Index Report released by the University of Pennsylvania. The report ranks CSE among the top 16 environment think tanks globally. As accelerating advances …
The United States is inadequately prepared to confront bioterrorist attacks, according to a broad range of health experts and officials. The nation must develop new vaccines and treatments, they say, but it must also fortify its fragile public health infrastructure, the first line of defense in detecting and containing biological …
The threat of biological or chemical terrorism is small, but still scary. Biological agents are even harder to turn into weapons of mass destruction. Not all strains of, say, anthrax or plague bacteria are equally deadly. Growing the right ones in the lab, keeping them pure and virulent, is also …
The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have ratcheted up fears that an even more terrible assault could lie ahead, this time with biological or chemical agents. Nothing that happened on Sept 11 has changed the underlying reality that biological and chemical weapons are extremely difficult …
Attorney General John Ashcroft warned Tuesday that terrorists operating in the United States may attempt to use trucks to transport chemical or biological weapons to their targets. The warning came as Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General of the World Health Organization, urged nations to strengthen their capacity to cope with …
The World Health Organisation has advised countries to prepare for a possible use of biological or chemical agents as weapons, even as it upgrades its own procedures for meeting any emergencies. WHO director general Gro Harlem Brundtland told a group of health ministers in Washington that countries 'must prepare for …
The World Health Organisation warned governments to strengthen their capacity to respond to attacks by chemical or biological weapons adding to public fears that terrorists might resort to germ warfare. At the same time the American Medical Association urged doctors world wide to 'recognise the growing threat that biological weapons …
A program conceived by the Clinton administration to rid the world of 100 tons of U.S. and Russian weapons-grade plutonium is likely to be abandoned by the Bush administration, according to people who have been briefed about the future of the program.
As devastating as Tuesday's terrorist attacks were, national security and public health experts know this much: Something even worse could happen. There are weapons that are invisible and next-to-impossible to trace. A whiff of nerve gas. A droplet of anthrax. A particle of smallpox. Infectious or toxic weapons in skilled …
While the country is reeling from the terrorist attacks last week, a new center has begun to train volunteers for a horror much greater - bioterrorism. "The events that took place on Tuesday, although they were terrible, didn't involve some of the more feared weapons of mass destruction," said Ed …
A program conceived by the Clinton administration to rid the world of 100 tons of American and Russian weapons-grade plutonium is likely to be abandoned by the Bush administration, according to people who have been briefed about the project.
One of the startling and secretive projects the Chinese missile scientists are engaged in its about developing multiple nuclear warheads for its inter-continental ballistic missiles, according to intelligence reports.China has about 20 to 25 D-5 ICBMs, deployed with its Second Artillery located in south-eastern province, which at present are capable …
All sorts of scoundrels have tried nuclear smuggling in recent years. Many are amateurs; most of what they try to peddle proves useless for making bombs. But the possible involvement of an army officer gave the Batumi case a measure of deadly seriousness, beyond its status as another example of …
Spanish and British nuclear experts are scheduled to meet this week to discuss what to do about a British nuclear submarine that has been berthed in Gibraltar since May, awaiting repairs to a crack in the cooling system of its reactor. But the announcement has done little to dampen anxiety …
Plans for a U.S. defense program aimed at fending off missile attacks from hostile nations were in a state of uncertainty following a failed test that heightened debate over whether the proposed shield is feasible or diplomatically sound. The crucial test collapsed in failure because the high-speed interceptor that was …
India today rejected the demand of nuclear states for a rollback in its nuclear programme and said New Delhi could not join the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as a non-nuclear weapon state.
An international team of scientists detonated a controlled explosion to destroy the fast of Kazakhastan's nuclear test facilities. The blast yesterday from 100 tonne of explosive in the final remaining tunnel of the Polygon test site effectively removed the former Soviet republic from the list of nations capable of testing …
The former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), Dr. P.K. Iyengar, wants a white paper comparing the country's nuclear weapons capabilities with its perceived adversaries, speeding up of the missile development programme and a 'peer review' of the Pokhran-II tests to develop a minimum credible deterence arsenal of atomic …
The United States has regretted yesterday's test firing of India's Prithvi missile, saying such testing has the potential to increase tensions in the region.
Electronically-stored classified information-- believed to include U.S. and Russian nuclear secrets-- disappeared from a vault at the Los alamos Nuclear Laboratory last month and the FBI has launched an intense search, officials have said.
