With political instability threatening Pakistan, the United States has begun debating how to help the country secure its nuclear weapons stockpile and nuclear-related facilities. Driving the preparations is the frightening prospect, however remote, that Islamic militants angered by a U.S. military assault on neighboring Afghanistan could seize power in Pakistan or gain control of some of its nuclear weapons.
More than a dozen countries?among them Russia, China, Iraq, Iran, and Cuba?are developing significant information-warfare capabilities. The U.S. is planning on consolidating its information warfare programs at the U.S. Space Command.