Some US experts worry that a smuggling ring gave rogue states plans for a light warhead, apparently from Pakistan. Reporter Peter Grier talks about nuclear bomb plans and recent reports that a sophisticated design may have fallen into the wrong hands. An infamous atomic smuggler may have had blueprints for a compact, sophisticated nuclear warhead, and that could mean that the world’s proliferation problem is even worse than many experts had thought.

Posted by Zoov on 18 Jun 2008
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There has been much talk lately about how certain people on the Republican side are out to get Barack Obama’s wife by turning her into a bitter, ungrateful harpy and fishwife. We should all remember the tempest in the teapot over something that we were told proved, without a doubt, that she did not love her country.

Posted by Zoov on 16 Jun 2008
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Top Two Air Force Officials Ousted, Failures in Oversight Of Nuclear Arms Cited. Gates Accepts Air Force Resignations
Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced Thursday that he has accepted the resignations of Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley and Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne.

Posted by Zoov on 06 Jun 2008
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Five years ago, as troubling reports emerged about the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a career lawyer at the Justice Department began a long and relatively lonely campaign to alert top Bush administration officials to a strategy he considered “wrongheaded.” Bruce C. Swartz, a criminal division deputy in charge of international issues, repeatedly questioned the effectiveness of harsh interrogation tactics at White House meetings of a special group formed to decide detainee matters, with representatives present from the Pentagon, the State Department and the CIA.

Posted by Zoov on 22 May 2008
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