A two-decade surge of legalized gambling is chipping away at U.S. security and military readiness, not just the bank accounts of bettors, a comprehensive new collection of research on the hazards of gambling warns.

The National Intelligence Council (NIC) has completed a new classified assessment that explores how climate change could threaten U.S. security in the next 20 years by causing political instability, mass movements of refugees, terrorism, or conflicts over water and other resources in specific countries.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States needs to overhaul its approach to national security.

It is often said that ‘the Devil is in the detail’. This was again proven to be true with the publication of the UK’s first National Security Strategy earlier this month.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain intensified his assault on Barack Obama on Thursday, portraying his possible Democratic general election opponent as a national security neophyte.

Chinese President Hu Jintao Monday called for redoubled efforts to step up defense and army building to guarantee national security and make greater contribution to world peace.

Somewhere out there are two computer discs with personal details on half Britain's population. The discs disappeared while being sent from one government department in north-east England to another department in London.

A newly declassified intelligence budget showed that the U.S. government spent $43.5 billion (EUR30.23 billion) on intelligence in 2007.

To strengthen the essential role that science and technology play in maintaining national and economic security, the United States should ensure the open exchange of unclassified research despite the small risk that it could be misused for harm by terrorists or rogue nations, says a new report by the National Research Council.

The Senate approved a package of security measures recommended by the 9/11 Commission, shifting more federal money to high-risk states and cities and requiring more stringent screening of air and sea cargo.

The announcement on May 21, 2007 that the largest public company in the Middle East, by market value, would be acquiring a division of the world’s second-largest corporation, by market value, and based in the United States, could not have been any less publicized. But in the world of corporate governance, the largest transaction ever completed in the Persian Gulf, seemingly trumps all laws of reason.

The following letter to the Editor of the New York Times was published on Saturday, May 5, 2007: