Monitor The Strategic Trends

Introduction:

      Modern Technology has made it possible for countries all over the world to possess the means for controlling their own populations and to threaten other nations with mass destruction. It no longer matters whether a nation is rich or poor, large or small, first world or third world. Almost anyone can make or purchase weapons that 50 years ago could not even be imagined.

US Destroys Largest Chemical Weapons Stockpile January 17, 2012

Nuclear Smuggling Suspects Plead Guilty December 20, 2011

Taking Out The Enemy's Weapons October 18, 2011

Al Qaida Takes Advantage of Libya Crisis April 05, 2011

Nuclear Power and Global Regulation December 21, 2010

Russia's Nuclear Gamble by Steve Elwart

Cyber Warfare: Today's Nukes by Steve Elwart, Senior Analyst Koinonia Institute

Losing Our Freedom, Bit by Bit: The Unseen War by Steve Elwart, IDB Folio Specialist

Middle East Update: Irans Nuclear Ambitions by Chuck Missler

Epistemology, Part 6: Y2K Again? by Chuck Missler

Documents

Overview of State-Sponsored Terrorism - Patterns of Global Terrorism: 1999

E-BOMB - Popular Mechanics - September 2001

Iraq Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs - U.S. Government White Paper, released February 13, 1998

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty -

Related Sites

Third Person Tests Positive for Anthrax in Florida - 2001-10-10

Tactical nukes deployed in Afghanistan - Military sources say Bush, Putin agree on weaponry - WND.com - 2001-10-07

Advice from Baghdad - Iraq says U.S. needs to 'think over what happened' on 9-11 - Reported to have nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons

Patterns of Global Terrorism - 1999 - State Department - Released April 2000

Weapons of Mass Destruction - Bureau of Nonproliferation

News Sources

NEW! Tehran Residents React To Obama's SOTU - At a time of heightened tension between the West and Iran with the US more determined than ever to prevent the Islamic state from becoming nuclear-armed Iranians are uncertain about the future they face. Local residents in Tehran's northern district are divided over the comments of US president Barack Obama, who, in a State of the Union address, warned Iran the United States would keep up pressure on its disputed nuclear program with "no options off the table" but said the door remained open to talks for a peaceful resolution. Obama said on Tuesday (January 24) Tehran was isolated and facing "crippling" sanctions that he said would continue so long as the Islamic Republic keeps its back turned to the international community.

Israel Concerned About Syria's Weapons Stockpiles - Israel has serious concerns about what will happen to "huge stockpiles" of chemical and biological weapons in Syria when the Assad regime collapses, a senior military official said on Tuesday. Major-General Amir Eshel, head of the Israeli military's planning division, said the working assumption was the regime of President Bashar Assad would eventually fall. "That's a major concern because I don't know who is going to own those the day after. Up till now, what has been transferred to Hezbollah? What will be transferred to Hezbollah? What will be divided between those factions inside Syria? What is that going to create?" asked Eshel.

70 Years After Pearl Harbor - On Dec. 7, 1941 the United States suffered the worst intelligence failure in its history - before or since - when Japanese planes destroyed much of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. Seventy years after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. finds itself in much the same situation that it was in prior to World War II. There is a great effort to cut military spending, bring troops home from abroad, and scale back our international exposure. The country's critical financial situation is one reason. Yet a nuclear-obsessed Iran, an emerging China and Russia, along with smaller rogue actors are enough of a threat to justify a vigilant and even aggressive guard.

North Korea Passing Iran, Syria Nuke Technology - North Korea has supplied Syria and Iran with a special kind of steel used to upgrading missiles and building centrifuges for uranium enrichment, the German newspaper Die Welt reported over the weekend. The material, called maraging steel, appears on the monitoring list of the Nuclear Suppliers Group and the Missile Technology Control Regime, and its export is prohibited to countries under sanctions such as Iran.

Israel Warns West - Short Time To Stop Iran - Israeli ambassadors in Western countries have been instructed to inform high-ranking politicians that the window of opportunity for imposing effective sanctions on Iran is closing, as part of a renewed diplomatic offensive aimed at using new sanctions to stop Tehran from developing a nuclear bomb. The ambassadors were asked to tell the equivalent of the foreign ministries and prime minister's offices in the countries where they are serving that there isn't much time left to stop the nuclear program through diplomatic means.

BioTech: The Sorcerer's New Apprentice - Audio CD - Chuck Missler Updated April 2006! Chuck Missler surveys some of the most promising prospects and reviews the types of ventures emerging. He also reveals some of the concerns emerging among the informed, and includes some of the provocative Biblical implications. Click for more information - Audio CD with MP3