The Washington Monthly argues that \'Deep government involvement in nanotechnology is more than a practical obligation from a research and national defense perspective. It\'s close to becoming a moral imperative.\'

The author argues that "there is no such thing as cyberterrorism--no instance of anyone ever having been killed by a terrorist (or anyone else) using a computer. Nor is there compelling evidence that al Qaeda or any other terrorist organization has resorted to computers for any sort of serious destructive activity."