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Iceland issued a red alert to civil aviation following signs of eruption at Vattnejökull. The airspace around the volcano was sealed off, but Iceland's...
Creative Anti-Chemical Weapon in Development
The Syrian civil war has brought chemical weapons back to the center stage in terms of international arsenals and defense methods. The U.S. military...
Has Syria’s Chemical Weapons Arsenal Truly Been Dismantled?
By Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Dany Shoham
June 30, 2014 was set to be the deadline for the complete elimination of Syria’s chemical weapon (CW)...
Innovative Method to Discover Dangerous Materials
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in the U.S. have been working for nearly a decade on methods to...
DNA synthesis may pose a risk of resurrecting deadly viruses for...
Homemade deadly viruses?
Scientists are warning that decades of public research on the sequencing of virus DNA are now posing unforeseen threats, as synthesis technologies...
Syria’s Chemical Weapons: Is Disarmament Possible?
By Lt. Col. (Res.) Dr. Dany Shoham
In practical terms, if Syria were to fully be disarmed according to the Chemical Weapons Convention, this would...
A Nuclear Crisis in Search of a Model: Lessons from Iraq,...
By Emily B. Landau
The interim deal signed in Geneva by the P5+1 and Iran is meant only to put “more time on the clock”...
“Saudi SARS” spreads globally thanks to mass religious gatherings in Middle...
Researchers say that the life-threatening MERS coronavirus which recently emerged in the Middle East could spread faster and wider thanks to two international mass gatherings involving...
U.S. Cancels New Bio-Threat Warning System
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has canceled plans to install an automated technology that was meant to speed the 24-hour operations of BioWatch,...
Chemical Identification, Now a Basic Capability
FLIR Systems has recently announced the Griffin G510 Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer (GC/MS). The device is essentially a first person-portable chemical identifier. The FLIR Griffin...
iHLS Worldwide News – Keeping You In the Loop
Isis is trying to develop biological weapons. Foreign Policy quotes information found on a laptop computer seized from an ISIS operative in the Irbil...
Hackers ‘Swooped’ on biological and nuclear warfare studies
Security researchers have uncovered a group of hackers who broke into 300 banks, corporations and governments for 12 years without being caught.
The hacker collective...
Syria is Playing for Time to Save Chemicals
After missing the 5 February deadline to have all its chemical weapons removed from its territory, Syria has submitted a new 100-day plan for...
Researchers Hide New Botulism Strain Due to Bioterrorism Fears
The recent discovery of a new strain of botulism, contracted by an infant - the first in forty years - has alarmed California state...
iHLS TV Weekly Video Report – March 3rd 2015
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In this weekly Video report (March 3rd 2015):
The international campaign against ISIS
Bad Iran Deal in the Offing
Innovative Face Recognition...
Nuclear Plants – Target for Hackers
Since May, hackers have been penetrating the computer networks of companies that operate nuclear power stations and other energy facilities, as well as manufacturing...
The Biggest Hoax – “Syria Clean of Chemical Weapons”
The international chemical weapons watchdog said on Thursday that Syria had met a key deadline for “the functional destruction” of all the chemical weapons...
Demolition of Syria’s Chemical Weapons – Just An Illusion
Broadway beware, the best shows are currently produced in the Middle East. The Iranian smile campaign was the first, but before the curtain had...
A security threat calls for limited exposure of Israel’s nuclear capabilities...
Continued from Part two
The Summary of the "Daniel Project" report states as follows: "we are faced with ’irrational’ enemies, countries or terrorist organizations, armed with...
Color-changing film detects chemical weapons
A new way of detecting chemical weapons: thin-film materials change color in response to chemical warfare agents.
In today’s world, in which the threat of...
The target – fast identification of chemical warfare agents
For more than fifty years, researchers have been studying exactly how aspirin affects the human body. Despite thousands of publications on the topic, our...
“U.S. knew of gas plot, but didn’t alert rebels”
Three days before the horrific chemical attack that killed nearly 1,500 people in Syria, American intelligence agencies had strong “indications’’ the atrocity was about...
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