New chemical sensor chips made with carbon nanotubes could enable rapid, low-cost detection of TNT and poison in rivers, reservoirs.

Tagged: terrorism

The recent terrorist attacks on Mumbai have brought attention to the countries' long-simmering dispute over Kashmir and the diplomatic balancing act the United States must play between the nuclear-armed neighbors. In this interview, Paul Kapur discusses the group that was likely behind the attacks and how he expects the situation to unfold.

Tagged: India, Pakistan, terrorism, International Issues, Humanities & Sciences

An Army terrorism expert now at Stanford's Hoover Institution has released 85 pages of once-secret documents that provide an insider's account of how Iranian military and Lebanese Hezbollah forces train Iraqi Shiite militants to kill U.S. soldiers.

Tagged: Hoover Institution, Iran, Iraq, terrorism, International Issues

Elisabeth Paté-Cornell specializes in understanding risk—going behind the scenes to perceive threats and trying to prevent them from materializing. "If we're doing our job well, nobody hears about it," says Paté-Cornell. It's a kind of analysis that has applications far from engineering itself, from detecting terrorists' plans to fighting infectious diseases to predicting human error in a variety of situations.

Tagged: multidisciplinary, NASA, risk, terrorism, International Issues, Engineering

Terrorism, notes Stanford Law School Professor Allen S. Weiner, is a surprisingly unexamined phenomenon given the gravity of the problem. Weiner recently teamed up with his colleague Amir Eshel, professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature, to seize the opportunity to create a new course to examine modern terrorism.

Tagged: Hoover Institution, terrorism, International Issues, On Campus, Humanities & Sciences, Law

A terrorist nuclear explosion devastates Manhattan, but no group takes credit. The pressure on the U.S. president to retaliate is intense, but information about the attackers is sketchy at best.   To avoid that scenario, a group of 12 scientists with extensive nuclear expertise, headed by Stanford physicist Michael May, is urging an international push to improve the science of nuclear forensics.

Tagged: nuclear, peace, terrorism, International Issues, Engineering

The biological arsenal that could be used for harm against humanity has an almost limitless supply of weaponry, thanks to nature's own talent for creating infectious agents of destruction.

Tagged: biothreats, terrorism, Human Health, International Issues, Medicine