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 …
Pakistani Pu Reactor and Reprocessing
by | 2006-10-04 | 1 Comment
NRDC’s Tom Cochran has released a pretty compelling rebuttal of David Albright’s estimate of the capacity of Pakistan’s new plutonium production reactor. Albright, writing with Paul Brannan, estimated the capacity of the new reactor in excess of 1000 MW; NSC Spokesman Frederick Jones called the estimate “wrong” and other officials told Bill Broad and David …
