Weapons Issues

Weapons Issues

Build a new nuke

Cue the outrage: The Bush administration is interested in developing and testing a new bunker-busting nuclear weapon. Earlier this year, Congress approved funds for the development of such a nuke, and one could conceivably be tested as early as 2005.

FBI guide warns of hidden knives

WASHINGTON –Since the Sept. 11 hijackings, an FBI lab here has been compiling a database of easily concealable knives – including long, fixed blades hidden in canes, retractable short blades hidden in keys and lipstick tubes, and others made of nonmetal composites that can escape detection by airport magnetometers and X-ray machines.