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– Scientist Stewart Nozette telling an undercover FBI agent posing as an Israeli spy why he wanted to be paid in cash. The U.S. government calls Nozette, 54, a “brilliant scientist” – he has an MIT doctorate and “sketched out in a burst of brilliance on a paper napkin” the concept for a satellite now [...]
The reports from Israel that it is seeking 5,000-pound GBU-28 bunker-busters for possible use against Iran makes for exciting reading. One problem: they can’t even dent Iran’s most protected sites. The reports suggest war is possible, without noting that these bombs would be like using a pea-shooter against your brother when he’s inside Dad’s car [...]
Daniel Houten is in basic training to become an infantryman in the U.S. Army at Fort Benning, Ga. Nothing unusual about another 11 Bravo – except that he recently finished an 18-month tour with the Israeli Defence Forces. The heck with generals and colonels weighing each army’s pluses and minuses – let’s talk to someone who [...]
The mind games that telegraph any military strike are simmering along and on the verge of a full boil. David Ignatius, columnist for the Washington Post, is reporting that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta believes there is a “strong likelihood” that Israel could attack Iran as early as April to try to derail Tehran’s nuclear bomb-building [...]
It has been a busy day or so on the nuclear front: – An Iran nuclear scientist was assassinated Wednesday morning in Tehran. – The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved its Doomsday Clock warning of nuclear war to 11:56 p.m. – one minute closer to the midnight when it believes nuclear war could break out. [...]
Nuclear contagion seems to be threatening to spread in the world’s tinderbox: the Persian Gulf region. Spurred by Iran’s continued push for nuclear weapons (at least according to Western intelligence agencies and international monitors) and Israel’s unacknowledged possession of them, Saudi Arabia is thinking of getting into the atomic act. “Our efforts and those of [...]
