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...whom had travelled to North Korea for a ?vacation? and another who had ties to a secretive Islamic charity operating in Afghanistan. A month before his abduction, Pearl had co-written an article in the Journal alleging that Dr. Bashiruddin Mahmoud, one of the fathers of the Pakistani bomb, had discussed nuclear weapons with Osama bin Laden. Pearl didn?t break that story; it had been widely reported. Nonetheless, Levy writes: ?One can imagine that (Pearl) was establishing the list of ISI superior officers who...were willing to close their eyes to a technology transfer to terrorist groups...
...says while checking 100 per cent of high risk cargo is a goal, the technology does not yet exist to make screening all cargo practical. Republican Congressman Christopher Shays is tired of waiting. "In the worst case, any plane with uninspected cargo has the risk of having a bomb on board. That is unacceptable." Loy says the TSA is expected to have a strategic plan completed by Oct. 31 and new rules published by the end of the year...
...fantasy to suppose that, when you need this much material to make a bomb from,” Carter said, dramatically brandishing the panelists’ pitcher of water, “you can put a hermetic seal around North Korea...
EDWARD TELLER had a longer and more intimate acquaintance with nuclear weapons than any man in history. During World War II, the brilliant, Hungarian-born physicist, fearful that Hitler was building an A-bomb, was among those who got Albert Einstein to nudge F.D.R. into starting what became the Manhattan Project. After the war, Teller pushed for the "super"--the H-bomb. The rabid anticommunist became a scientific pariah in the 1950s for implying that his former boss, Manhattan Project head J. Robert Oppenheimer, was a security risk. Teller was considered the model for Dr. Strangelove, the bomb-loving scientist...
...will miss Blair Hornstine at Harvard this fall, Blair Hornstine least of all. Her life would have been miserable, as Quasimodo in the ivory tower, the H-bomb for first-year women waiting for word of their roommates and a time bomb for Harvard’s legal counsel—no doubt relieved that Harvard was spared the dreaded little envelope, a lawsuit rejecting Harvard’s rejection...