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People who believe false rumors about the proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero in New York City not only are more likely to oppose that project "“ they are more likely to oppose building of a mosque in their own neighborhood.Researchers surveyed 750 Americans and asked them if they believed any of four rumors associated with the New York City mosque, all of which have been refuted. One of the rumors, for example, falsely says that that the proposed center is...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), the premier national resource for chemical and biological defense, announced that the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) recently honored ECBC employees Jim Genovese and Shawn Funk for their contributions in transferring technology to the private sector over the past year. Genovese, a chemist within the Center's Engineering Directorate, was recognized for...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Joseph D. Wienand was officially appointed technical director of the U. S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), the premier national resource for chemical and biological defense, June 20. He served as acting technical director after serving as the organization's Director of Program Integration since May. As technical director, Wienand is responsible for more than 1,800 Department of the Army civilians, soldiers and on-site...

WASHINGTON, June 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- National Journal Group is proud to announce that Elaine Grossman has won two of journalism's top editorial awards for her work in Global Security Newswire (GSN), where she covers nuclear arms, terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Grossman's acclaimed article, "Inside Obama Administration, A Tug Of War Over Nuclear Warheads [link to: http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20090818_1478.php]," took First Prize in Online...

BOISE, Idaho, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- IntelliScience Corporation, a developer of intelligent multi-modal image analysis systems and software, today announced that it has received a five year contract award from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia. The indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract has a potential value of approximately $16.6M and will provide DTRA with IntelliScience systems and services that aid operators in detecting known and...

Non-Stockpile mission destroys largest inventory of recovered chemical warfare materiel to date ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., April 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) announced that it completed its mission to destroy all non-stockpile materiel declared when the United States entered into the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an international treaty mandating the destruction of our Nation's chemical warfare. This milestone also marks the...

WASHINGTON, April 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz, President of General Intelligence Presidency (GIP) and head of Saudi Arabia's delegation to the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, DC, presented the Kingdom's statement at the summit on behalf of the Kingdom. Below is the statement in its entirety. The statement can also be found on the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia's website. In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate Your Excellency Mr. Barack...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Building Protection Systems, Inc. (BPSI), the developers of the first complete Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) detection system to actively and reliably protect buildings, mass transit stations, stadiums, and public venues from airborne toxins, today announced a critical milestone in its achievement of surpassing 100,000 hours of operation of its Sentry One detection technology without a single false-positive or false-negative, a...

KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Midwest Research Institute (MRI) has been awarded a U.S. Department of Defense contract to provide CBRNE--chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive--support services. CBRNE expertise is vital to national defense against chemical and biological warfare and terrorism. "Federal agencies have entrusted Midwest Research Institute to provide CBRNE expertise since our founding in 1944," said Michael F. Helmstetter, Ph.D., MRI President...

In an ongoing effort to mirror the ability of biological tissues to respond rapidly and appropriately to changing environments, scientists from the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine have synthesized a single, multifunctional polymer material that can decontaminate both biological and chemical toxins. They described the findings recently in Biomaterials."Our lab applies biological principles to create materials that can do many things, just like our skin protects us from both...