Last month, a New York Times Magazine cover story took an in-depth and valuable look at judicial radicals. Like Janice Rogers Brown and other court nominees George W. Bush and Bill Frist are trying to ram through the Senate, these professors and think-tankers pass themselves off as conservatives. Yet they are leading what the writer […]
Morton Mintz
Morton Mintz is a former chair of the Fund for Investigative Journalism and a former Washington Post reporter. An earlier version of this article appeared on TomPaine.com.
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Hair-Raising Hair Triggers
Thousands of ready-to-fire U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons are susceptible to unauthorized launches by terrorists, who might either capture a missile or electronically hack into a missile launch-control system. This reality has gotten nearly zero attention in the press. And it gets worse. Cyber-terrorists might also succeed in fooling early-warning systems, inducing a false attack […]
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Two Minutes to Launch
The bitter disputes over national missile defense (NMD) have obscured a related but dramatically more urgent issue of national security: the 4,800 nuclear warheads–weapons with a combined destructive power nearly 100,000 times greater than the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima–currently on “hair-trigger” alert. Hair-trigger alert means this: The missiles carrying those warheads are armed and […]