Pick a test site. Any test site. From the Korea Herald The Seoul government is now working closely with U.S. intelligence agencies on identifying the North’s possible test site. [snip] However, all acquired intelligence has been dependent on statements by North Korean defectors without satisfactory verification. Some analysts said North Korea may conduct nuclear tests …
Shameless Other-Promotion
by | 2006-10-05 | 2 Comments
My friend and former co-worker Chris McIntosh has earned a slot at TNR’s post-season baseball-blog Deep in the Count. The blog has some very good writing, although it’s premised on the inane assumption that baseball is not boring. Here’s his bio: Chris McIntosh is a diehard Atlanta Braves fan by birth (yes, we do exist), …
Only you can prevent forest fires
by | 2006-10-05 | No Comments
And also, naturally, terrorist use of shipping containers to transport dirty bombs into the U.S. U.S. Customs and Border Control needs your help. From the Container Security Initiative website: If you have information concerning possible terrorist use of shipping containers to smuggle weapons or other items, you may be entitled to a reward for the …
Bad Ideas
by | 2006-10-04 | 1 Comment
In an effort to compare the US-India nuclear deal to other historically-bad ideas, I give you an account of a 1975 article from Fortune magazine that I found in Steve Weissman and Herbert Krosney’s 1981 book The Islamic Bomb. According to Weissman and Krosney, the article argued that the United States was “sacrificing too much …
