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Portal 'Cold War' Gets Online Organised
News Repeated over and over again, this Cold War scenario has led to super-sites such as Yahoo! Observers say America Online's purchase Monday of online organiser When.com is likely to mean that all of the major Internet hubs will rush to get in on the...
[April 6, 1999, 9:49]
RIP Becomes Law, Opponents Promise 'cold War'
News Internet campaigners promise to launch a "cold war" against the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill which became law Friday after a final reading in the House of Lords this week.
[July 28, 2000, 11:17]
Governments Prepare For 'cyber Cold War'
News As in the Cold War, it is the countries with access to the most resources that are seen to be flexing their muscles. They warn that a "cyber cold war" is developing, in which governments are using technology not only for the immediate benefit of...
[December 3, 2007, 10:58]
Transforming Government: Dan Goldin And The Remaking Of NASA
White Papers The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was born of the Cold War and survived for most of its organizational life linked to competition with the Soviet Union. When the U.S.S.R.dissolved in 1991 and the Cold War ended, NASA was...
[December 14, 2003, 23:00]
Russians Launch Itanium Attack
News Intel is using a team of Russian engineers in its Moscow-based Intel Solutions Centre as a secret weapon in the cold war between Intel's IA-64 processors and established Risc systems. The Russian engineers are mostly former military scientists who...
[June 28, 2001, 9:58]
US Software 'blew Up Russian Gas Pipeline'
News At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War, written by Thomas C. Its ultimate bankruptcy, not a bloody battle or nuclear exchange, is what brought the Cold War to an end. In his book, Reed says the pipeline explosion was just one example...
[March 1, 2004, 14:10]
IT Espionage Is More Thriller Than Threat
Leader Over the duration of the Cold War, the game of spy versus spy rapidly evolved from information gathering through to a vital component of the peculiarly stable political co-dependency of East and West.
[September 10, 2007, 17:30]
Google Hires Vint Cerf
Talkback I thought that ARPAnet had nothing to do with the military, and that ARPA was created during the cold war as a way of developing advanced technology.
[September 10, 2005, 16:09]
FBI Wants To Tap High-speed Internet
Talkback During the cold war the US was the good guy because of lots of civil freedoms and rights and Russia was the bad guy because everyone there had to life in fear, uncertainty and doubt. Perhaps Stalin lives in Washington these days?
[September 27, 2005, 21:12]
Bio-Medical Aspects Of Bio-Terrorism And A Call To Action
White Papers Not since the height of the cold war has there been so much public concern over weapons of mass destruction. Many of the current fears focus on the threat of the intentional release of infectious agents.
[February 23, 2005, 23:00]
Homeland Security Requirements And The Future Shape Of The Army National Guard
White Papers After the end of the Cold War, that federal mission changed its character from defense of the United States' very existence in a general war to that of responding to a variety of smaller contingencies world-wide either in a war-fighting or...
[January 24, 2005, 23:00]
From Terror Fallout To Terra Firma - Convergent Focus On Strengthening Homeland Security
White Papers The global security climate took a sudden nose-dive - from one of post-Cold War euphoric "new world order" to one of strategic insecurity - after 11 September 2001. The dark plumes from the collapsed World Trade Center buildings subsequently...
[December 27, 2004, 23:00]
US 'will Not Enforce' Encryption Laws
News A pioneering attempt to overturn the US government's Cold War-era laws restricting the publication of some forms of encryption code ended quietly on Wednesday when a federal judge dismissed the lawsuit -- but only after assurances that the...
[October 16, 2003, 15:20]
America's Role In Asia - US Security Policy In East Asia: Adjusting To A New Security Setting
White Papers In the post-Cold War era, US strategic planners have been caught between two camps in defining the primary threat to US national security, one concerned with functional threats like the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), terrorism...
[January 19, 2005, 23:00]
National Security Roles For The National Guard
White Papers Since the end of the Cold War, the national security environment has seen great change while the organizations that compose the nation's security have remained relatively constant. Within the context of this new security environment, the Bush...
[December 27, 2004, 23:00]
Future Roles Of U.S. Nuclear Forces
White Papers Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has been reexamining its basic assumptions about foreign policy and various instruments of national security policy to define its future needs. This study examines the possible roles of nuclear...
[December 12, 2004, 23:00]
Microsoft Drops Mac Internet Explorer
Talkback Mark my words -- the war is going from cold into hot. This is part of the opening salvo of M$ vs. Apple.
[December 19, 2005, 15:51]
Espionage And The Insider
White Papers Unfortunately, espionage is still alive and well in today's post Cold War environment. Human espionage is an ancient art; in fact, it has even been called the oldest profession. If anything, it is even more rampant.
[February 15, 2005, 23:00]
Civilian Application Of The DOD C4ISR Architecture Framework: A Treasury Department Case Study
White Papers The end of the Cold War affords us the opportunity to devote time, attention, and interest to the concept of adapting the structured DOD architectural processes and best practices to the non-military sector at Federal, department, and bureau...
[December 27, 2004, 23:00]
Biological Weapons As A Strategic Threat
White Papers I don't think biological weapons had much of an effect on the Cold War, even though there were many of them in the Soviet Union and, early on, in the United States as well. I had to go up to a place--I don't even know if it exists anymore--called...
[December 1, 2004, 23:00]
