Everyone has probably caught the bits and pieces of headlines on the former Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned and died last week. There is little conclusive information and the assassination has been linked in the press both to the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya and the Yukos affair. It’s a James Bond …
German Nuclear Tourism
by | 2006-11-27 | 2 Comments
The German Federal government is working with a German history museum in Bonn, the Haus der Geschichte, to transform the former Emergency Seat of the Constitutional Organs of the Federal Republic (Ausweichsitz der Verfassungsorgane des Bundes)—Germany’s answer to Mount Weather—into a tourist destination. The New York Times has a story by Mark Landler complete with …
Sandia Stalker
by | 2006-11-26 | 3 Comments
Another wayward youngster at our national labs. I am going to have to create a separate category for these stories: A woman is accused of using a computer at a national laboratory to hack into a cell phone company’s Web site to get a number for Chester Bennington, lead singer of the rock group Linkin …
Terror Farm, Part 2
by | 2006-11-24 | 20 Comments
This is the second in a many part series based on my article with Peter Zimmerman in Foreign Policy entitled “Bomb in the backyard.” For previous posts click on the phrase terror farm . I wanted to share my favorite moment from writing “Bomb in the Backyard” (aka Terror Farm). Our scenario, like the novel …
