A U.S. debate over stockpile stewardship is opening the "back door for a slew of nuclear weapons programs—mini nukes, bunker-busters, and electromagnetic-pulse enhancers."
Fred Kaplan argues that the recent blackout in the U.S. clearly indicates a problem with the archaic energy grid but it also reveals "the system's?and society's?resilience" to terrorist attack.
Fred Kaplan criticizes the Bush administration's over-emphasis on missile defense at the expense of research into the technologies necessary to detect the next terrorist attack.
Fred Kaplan argues that the new generation of 'smarter' bombs and munitions have the same limitations and risks as the previous generations.