Defense Tech: Last Best Reminder
October 19th, 2005
Defense Tech: Last Best Reminder:
Of all the varieties of incompetence in this, the Age of Incompetence, the most deadly involves the potential of nuclear terrorism. After years of foot dragging, Presidents Bush and Putin have finally agreed at summit meetings this year that it is the single most serious threat in the world today—far more likely than a nuclear exchange by superpowers. And yet they and their governments are not following through quickly enough to secure loose nukes at their source. At the pace we’re going, it will be 13 years—2018—before all of them are recovered and deactivated, by which time even the most sober analysts believe terrorists will likely have blown up and contaminated some city forever.
2018 is awfully specific. Nobody knows when the proliferated world will go critical.
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