Okay, so I meant to keep this blog apolitical… well so much for that.
We are working with other governments to secure nuclear materials in the former Soviet Union, and to strengthen global treaties banning the production and shipment of missile technologies and weapons of mass destruction.
(From the 2003 State of the Union address) .
Clearly, American politics lives in its own colorful, illusory dream-world. This was four years ago (one year after the US bailed out of the ABM treaty); Bush was capitalizing on the fantasy that East-West cooperation would secure or eliminate the loose nuclear targets floating around from the fall of the USSR. As much a fantasy then as it is now - four years on, and just look - weapons-grade HEU is flying around the ex-Soviet bloc like so many drunk bees! From a story in today’s NYT: Continue reading ‘psssst… you… want some weapons-grade uranium?’
