Weapons

Arming our own enemies in Iraq Arming our own enemies in Iraq

Bush officials claim that Iran has supplied grenade launchers to Iraqi militants -- but the real source of the weapons is U.S. negligence.
  • Guns, not roses, for Iraq

    The U.S. is selling billions in weapons to Iraq. Is the Pentagon's plan making the country secure or arming it to the teeth for civil war?
  • Scott Ritter

    The controversial former chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq says Saddam's weapons of mass destruction are largely disarmed, the "Iraqi threat" is built on a framework of lies and President Bush has betrayed the American people.
  • Poison on the mind

    Is panic the right response to the specter of bioterrorism?
  • Secret costs

    Scientists say the security crackdown at nuclear weapons labs is the real national security risk.
  • From Russia with guns

    A glossy weapons catalog offers wimpy nations a chance to buy new respect from their neighbors.
  • "It's happened again"

    When gun-control advocates use mass shootings to push for a handgun ban, critics accuse them of exploiting tragedy. But there's a difference between exploiting a tragedy and learning from it.
  • Love me, love my guns

    A shotgun tumbled from a closet and my husband drifted from my heart.
  • Newsreal: Worse than useless

    A former chief weapons inspector explains why the deal the United Nations struck with Saddam Hussein will only help Iraq to keep and develop its weapons of mass destruction.
  • Newsreal: Clinton, Saddam and the hot zone

    A biological warfare expert examines allegations that Iraq possesses a new class of genetically engineered "bioweaponry" that could kill hundreds of thousands of people and terrorize American cities.

From Salon's blogs