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...horrific than 9/11--was about to come true. In October an intelligence alert went out to a small number of government agencies, including the Energy Department's top-secret Nuclear Emergency Search Team, based in Nevada. The report said that terrorists were thought to have obtained a 10-kiloton nuclear weapon from the Russian arsenal and planned to smuggle it into New York City. The source of the report was a mercurial agent code-named DRAGONFIRE, who intelligence officials believed was of "undetermined" reliability. But DRAGONFIRE's claim tracked with a report from a Russian general who believed his forces were...
...loop. Former mayor Rudolph Giuliani says he was never told about the threat. In the end, the investigators found nothing and concluded that DRAGONFIRE's information was false. But few of them slept better. They had made a chilling realization: if terrorists did manage to smuggle a nuclear weapon into the city, there was almost nothing anyone could do about...
...short, stalky white male entered and robbed the bank, according to an FBI spokesperson. The suspect did not brandish a weapon, and no one was injured in the holdup, according...
...what the New York Post has called the “tough streets” of Brooklyn as a youth. He walked them on his way back from school—where a speech impediment made him a laughingstock—to his home, where his mother fired a weapon at his father on one occasion and chased him with a butcher knife on another. He cried as he watched two sisters die of AIDS. He got into a number of legal scrapes early in his career as a late-night sidekick of Charles Barkley during their days as Philadelphia...
...guard. Europe's cash-strapped governments will never be able to match U.S. spending, but they can close the capability and credibility gap without mirror-imaging U.S. forces. These in any case waste billions on costly "legacy programs" designed for the cold war at the expense of transformational new weapon systems needed for future, more complicated conflicts. Smarter procurement would enable Europe to get more bang for the defense buck. The U.S. can afford to spend $350 billion on three new kinds of tactical fighter, but Europe should be shopping for drones that can carry out many of the tasks...