Note to wide-eyed futurists: The Matrix and Terminator 3 are not — repeat not — documentaries. There are no all-robot armies in the works. Please go back to your desks.
From the monthly archives:
January 2004
The Bush administration wants another $119 million for its BioWatch program, which puts air filters in 31 major cities, to sniff for toxic terror attacks. Too bad the system’s close to useless, experts say. First off, BioWatch protects against the most unlikely of terror threats: a crop duster, releasing a gigantic toxic cloud over an […]
Back in the day, security at the country’s nuclear labs were tested by Navy SEALs and Army Rangers. Not any more. Today, the Energy Department has its own 40-person team, trained to “think like terrorists,” that conduct mock attacks on nuclear facilities. National Defense magazine claims that these guys are the “cream-of-the-crop of DOEs security […]
“The Bush administration,” reports the Chicago Tribune, “is preparing a U.S. military offensive that would reach inside Pakistan with the goal of destroying Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network.“ U.S. Central Command is assembling a team of military intelligence officers that would be posted in Pakistan ahead of the operation, according to sources familiar with […]
The thermobaric bomb is just about the most vicious weapon you can imagine — igniting the air, sucking the oxygen out of an enclosed area, and creating a massive pressure wave crushing anything unfortunate enough to have lived through the conflagration. So pray — pray hard — that this Defense News story is all wrong: […]
