Two separate pieces of news: There was some buzz this week on DHS’s “Securing the Cities” project, a program designed to protect cities from nuclear and radioactive weapons by securing city perimeters. You can read about this week’s news at northjersey.com. Here’s a background article from 2/8/07 in the New York Times. Small boat operators [...]
Archive for October 2007
Dept. of Homeland Security Steps Up Prevention of Nuke Attacks
October 31, 2007How much is that nuclear bomb in the window?
October 25, 2007I scratch my head over the mainstream press when they debate whether Iran will get the bomb in two years or five years or 10 years. They’ve missed the big story: Nuclear bombs are available on the black market today! The former Russian Security Council secretary, Alexander Lebed, said in an interview on 60 Minutes [...]
Cynicism and Irony
October 23, 2007Pardon this cynical and facetious thought but I have a solution to global warming: nuclear winter. A bunch of nukes would create an abundance of dust and smoke in the atmosphere, which would shade the earth from the sun and lower global temperatures. While studies of the affects of nuclear winter are theoretical, it seems [...]
Radioactive “Dirty Bomb” Exercise
October 14, 2007The Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) is running a dirty bomb preparedness exercise this week, Oct. 15-19, called TOPOFF 4 (Top Officials 4). It’ll take place in Portland, Phoenix and Guam and will involve many thousands of people from all levels of the public and private sectors. Here’s the TOPOFF 4 link in the DHS [...]
