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NYPD Plans Simulated Chemical Attack For New York Subways
A subway-borne chemical attack is one of those theoreticals that require the willful ignorance of regular passengers — for most of us, it’s just better not to think about it. Not so for the NYPD, which yesterday announced a plan to test how a chemical or radiological attack would spread through the city’s 320km of subway by pumping an invisible gas through the system this year.
Monster Machines: How The Next-Gen Police Bot Picks Bombs Apart In Record Time
The Wheelbarrow EOD robot has dutifully served the British Army since Lt Col. Peter Mille first put one to work disarming IRA bombs in 1972. But, these days, the 400 or so units currently deployed in the UK and abroad are quickly becoming legacy hardware. The British Ministry of Defence’s replacement: a state-of-the-art bomb-bot that can disable an IED four times faster than its predecessor.
The Logos Of Terrorist Organisations Predictably Love Using Guns
In a book called Branding Terror, Francesco Trivini Bellini and former United Nations counterterrorism analyst Artur Beifuss compiled the logos and brand identities of terrorist organisations “from al-Qaeda to the Real IRA” and analysed them as they would any logo. It’s fascinating to approach the identity of the terrorists from a graphic design perspective.
Congressmen Want The FBI To Shut Down Hamas Twitter Accounts
Twitter has moved far beyond just being a service you talk about your lunch on, and along with the many useful services it’s a platform for, it can also be a tool for terrorism and violence. At least that’s how seven House Republicans in the US see it, and that’s why they’re asking the FBI to shut down Hamas-related Twitter accounts.
Email Confused Osama, And 5 Other Revelations From The Bin Laden Files
Osama bin Laden may have been the evil mastermind behind the world’s most successful terrorist group. But in his final days, he sounded more and more like your great aunt Henrietta: nagging his subordinates for not hating America enough — the terrorist equivalent of telling the kids to get off his lawn — and getting awfully confused about this whole email thing.
This Beautiful Short Film About 9/11 Will Move You To Tears
The terrorist attacks on September 11 did more than snuff out the lives of nearly 3000 people. They left many thousands more without fathers, brothers, daughters, sisters, mothers and sons. Will by Eusong Lee poignantly examines what remains for those left behind.
