Word: weaponeering
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Over the past two weeks, U.S. and South Korean officials have released fresh evidence that North Korea is advancing its program to build miniaturized nuclear weapons. Pyongyang claims to have converted enough plutonium from spent nuclear fuel rods for at least five or six bombs. The U.S. and South Korea say the North has conducted recent tests to perfect high-explosive detonators used to trigger a nuclear explosion. Ongoing work at the North's nuclear plant at Yongbyon is well known. But over the weekend, the New York Times reported that American and Asian officials say there is strong evidence...
...charge that Alastair Campbell, Blair's communications chief, had "sexed up" the dossier at least in part on what Kelly had said. Hoon first said he had nothing to apologize for, then was awkwardly silent at a news conference when blamed for being complicit in outing Kelly after the weapons expert notified his bosses of a discrepancy between what he had told Gilligan and what Gilligan broadcast. Officials say Kelly was warned his name might become public. Certainly no one expected that putting him forward to contradict Gilligan would induce suicide. Only after his death, when the BBC admitted Kelly...
...hours after the shooting, which occurred just after 2pm, New Yorkers were horrified that a gunman could have brought a weapon into a municipal building after Sept. 11. In this case, Davis had brought his killer into the building himself, inadvertently helping him bypass security. New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg said security videotapes - which do not record audio - showed Askew and Davis outside City Hall, where they had a conversation. They then went through the security booth at the west gate, but did not pass through the metal detector. Bloomberg said city council members, as well as the mayor, were...
April 2003, Jacksonville, Fl. Incident: A disgruntled former city employee enters City Hall Annex with a 12-gauge shotgun and extra ammunition, police say, and pulls the weapon on his former supervisor. Other workers were able to get the weapon out of the man's hands, and no one was injured. Security: No metal detecting devices were available. Security was beefed up after the incident...
...April 2002, Norristown, Pa. Incident: A lawyer forgot his licensed weapon was in his briefcase and put it through the x-ray machine; the security officer was distracted and didn't see it until later, when the alarm was raised and the weapon tracked down Security: The security officer was subsequently reassigned...