Featured Article: The Interagency’s “WMD” Terminology Problem

● ehill ● June 19, 2019 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: The Interagency’s “WMD” Terminology Problem by Alexi Franklin The terms “weapons of mass destruction (WMD),” “chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN),” and “chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives (CBRNE)” are found throughout the interagency, and they are treated essentially as synonyms. In important ways, however, these terms highlight… Read More

InterAgency Journal 10-2

● ehill ● May 14, 2019 ● Featured InterAgency Journal (IAJ) ● No Comments

Inside this issue: Features Situating Weapons of Mass Destruction in our Interagency Thinking by Amy J. Nelson and John Mark Mattox Enhanced Research into Synthetic Biology by Sean R. Watterson The Interagency Challenges of Hypersonic Strike Weapons by Richard C. Robbins Entomological “Weapons” of Mass Destruction by Thomas F. Moore… Read More

Featured Article: Reassessing the CBRN Response Enterprise

● ehill ● December 19, 2018 ● Featured Articles ● 1 Comment

Featured article: Reassessing the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Response Enterprise by Gary D. Mills We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. —Dwight D. Eisenhower During the last nine months, citizens throughout the world have observed momentous events that have added to a tumultuous global environment. Internationally,… Read More

InterAgency Journal 9-4

● ehill ● November 19, 2018 ● InterAgency Journal (IAJ) ● No Comments

Inside this issue: Features Collaborating to Solve National Science and Technology Challenges in a Time of Scarcity by Ian G. Brosnan and Jonathan Stock Strategic Defense Impacts of Climate Change: An Interagency Challenge by Wendell Chris King Musicians of Mars: Attaining Interagency Consensus on Perpetual War in Afghanistan by Robert… Read More

Featured Article: Nuclear Terrorism…

● ehill ● August 30, 2017 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Nuclear Terrorism – Imminent Threat? by Brendan G. Melley The 2015 National Security Strategy of the United States stated that “No threat poses as grave a danger to our security and well-being as the potential use of nuclear weapons and materials by irresponsible states or terrorists.” On March… Read More

InterAgency Journal 8-3

● ehill ● August 16, 2017 ● InterAgency Journal (IAJ) ● No Comments

Inside this issue: Features Critical Infrastructure Protection by Patricia Ladnier Fostering Interagency Collaboration for Upstream Counterproliferation by Matthew D. Rautio Nuclear Terrorism – Imminent Threat? by Brendan G. Melley A Clear Deterrence Strategy Required for Cyber by Terrence S. Allen Interagency Leadership by Duane M. Blackburn The End of Operational… Read More

Hackers target nuclear facilities

● ehill ● July 19, 2017 ● IA News ● No Comments

Earlier this month the New York Times published a piece detailing how hackers have been targeting the computer networks of nuclear power stations, energy facilities, and manufacturing plants. The revelation came from a joint report from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and… Read More

Featured Article: Kinetic Energy Weapons…

● ehill ● July 5, 2017 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Kinetic Energy Weapons: The Beginning of an Interagency Challenge by Daniel C. Sproull In 1948, the UN Commission for Conventional Armaments defined weapons of mass destruction (WMD) as “…atomic explosive weapons, radioactive material weapons, lethal chemical and biological weapons, and any weapons developed in the future which have… Read More

Featured Article: Plutonium and Picasso – A Typology of Nuclear and Fine Art Smuggling

● ehill ● June 13, 2017 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Plutonium and Picasso – A Typology of Nuclear and Fine Art Smuggling by Joshua D. Foss The global security environment continues to evolve. Globalization, advances in technology, and greater connectedness of people and economies have enabled transnational organized crime and new and existing illicit markets to expand. Never… Read More

Featured Article: Importing Nuclear Weapons…

● ehill ● May 30, 2017 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Importing Nuclear Weapons Through the Selectively-Permeable Border of the United States by William T. Eckles The health of the U.S. parallels the health of a living organism. The body needs and seeks beneficial substances and interactions. The skin, lungs, and digestive tract of an organism are like the… Read More

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