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...Nuclear Weapons More than 25 years ago, in an eerie foreshadowing of the World Trade Center attack, the writer John McPhee explored with nuclear physicist Ted Taylor the question of how you could topple the Twin Towers with a small atomic bomb. Positioned correctly, McPhee reported, a nuke a tenth as powerful as Hiroshima's could knock a tower into the Hudson River...
...basic theory is so appealing: to replace cold war reliance on mutual suicide with 21st century security beneath a defensive umbrella. Though Russia and China possess by far the most nukes that could incinerate the U.S., the Administration says its shield isn't so much for protection from them but to defend against the possibility that a nasty regime in North Korea or Iraq or Iran will soon be able to loft a missile at America. A nuke is more likely to come in a suitcase than on a warhead, but the hurry-up argument doesn't deal with that...
...true cost" of energy, including environmental impact, is taken into account. He's hinting, of course, that a big fat subsidy - in the form of a don't-worry-too-much-about-the-pollution thumbs-up from Dick Cheney's report - is exactly what the coal, oil and nuke industries are about to receive...
...grounds. Sauls' sweeping "burden of proof" rejection may well have been an acknowledgment that David Boies was going to sue no matter what he did. So Sauls kicked the whole mess upstairs, and it'll be up to Florida's highest court - barring a 5,000-vote Seminole County nuke on Wednesday - to save Gore...
...like the butterfly ballots of Palm Beach County, Florida? How about the homeless with their Democratic bribes of Lucky Strikes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin? How about those illegal aliens in California? Two can play the game. Let's have a look, your honor, at California, Washington, New Mexico, Iowa.... We nuke Moscow and Minsk, they nuke Chicago and L.A. Let the months and years roll on. The little pathogens with law degrees can Jarndyce & Jarndyce this thing 'til the last dog dies and the shutters fall off the windows of the empty, long-abandoned White House...