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."
The author criticizes the nationalist, USA-centric rhetoric behind the Mars movement and argues for a broader perspective.
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.
The author exposes some of the technological weaknesses in unmanned aerial vehicles and argues that their sensor technology is still incapable of discerning combatants from civillians.