As US forces approach the outskirts of Baghdad, the Pentagon has asserted that Republican Guard Units have the authority to deploy chemical weapons.
Documents taken in Iraq after the first Persian Gulf war showed the extent to which Saddam Hussein hoped to have his soldiers and even civilians exploit prisoners of war.
Russian special police use incapacitating gas to stop Chechen terrorists.
A report and a diagram outlining the Iraqi security apparatus.
Statement made to the United Nations General Assembly, September14, 2002, New York
Construction of Russia’s first floating nuclear power plants is moving ahead.
Report on growing concerns that terrorists could gain access to laboratory stocks of the smallpox virus and use them as a deadly weapon.
The first authoritative English translation of the report is now available.
Occasional Paper #9: The first authoritative English translation of an official Soviet report describing a previously unknown outbreak of smallpox in 1971 in the city of Aralsk, Kazakhstan.
