Dark Web, a giant, searchable database at the University of Arizona's Artificial Intelligence Lab, is an attempt to uncover, cross-reference, catalogue and analyze all online terrorist-generated content on the at least 7000 to 8000 terrorist sites.
The Bush administration is planning to give domestic law enforcement agencies increased access to powerful spy satellite technology. But some lawmakers and civil liberties groups say that the program may invade the privacy of Americans.
A team of computational scientists have created a new technology they are calling the "Dark Web" which aims to systematically collect and analyze all terrorist-generated content on the Web.
The Bush administration has approved a plan to expand domestic access to some of the most powerful tools of 21st-century spycraft, giving law enforcement officials and others the ability to view data obtained from satellite and aircraft sensors that can see through cloud cover and even penetrate buildings and underground bunkers.
The authors, two former U.S. Secretaries of Defense, argue that the U.S. needs prompt global strike capability to provide maximum flexibility for dealing with the threat of global terrorism. They wrote the article in support of a Pentagon proposal to replace the nuclear warheads on two of the Trident D5 missiles on every deployed strategic submarine with a new type of warhead incorporating four highly accurate, independently targetable, nonnuclear reentry bodies.
U.S. and international programs to defeat al Qaeda have limited the terrorist group's ability to acquire weapons of mass destruction, the No. 2 U.S. intelligence official said.
The author explores ways to secure valuable space resources against 'assymetric attack' and suggests that a space surveillance system, similar to the proposed system for observing and tracking Earth-crossing objects, is the best solution.
The recently foiled terrorist strike at an oil-processing plant in Saudia Arabia highlights al Qaeda's long-term strategy of attacking the global energy infrastructure.
Insurgents could be using satellite images from a popular website to mount attacks on British and American bases in Iraq, according to defence experts.
The Pentagon has drafted a revised doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons that envisions commanders requesting presidential approval to use them to preempt an attack by a nation or a terrorist group using weapons of mass destruction. The draft also includes the option of using nuclear arms to destroy known enemy stockpiles of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.