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No-Tech North Korea Won’t Attack the Super-Tech South

SEOUL, South Korea — With North Korea’s recent missile launch and its threats to re-start the nuclear reactors at Yongbyon, it’s worth asking: what is the prospect of all-out war?  Surprisingly, after a recent trip to South Korea and a tour of the ...

From KRIS ALEXANDER, Wired,  28 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Central Intelligence Agency

Nuke Detection is Latest Fallout from Georgia War

There have been documented cases of nuclear smuggling in Georgia, and if a terrorist organization is looking for a chance to move nuclear materials, the chaos following the Russian invasion presents a golden opportunity for bad people. But keep the ...

From KRIS ALEXANDER, Wired,  16 Oct 2008

No Iraq News is Good News for Troops?

TV news has stopped covering the Iraq war. And everyone from the New York Times to CBS News hottie Lara Logan is wringing their hands over it. But counter-intuitively, the decline in coverage may actually be good for US troops.  The June Atlantic ...

From KRIS ALEXANDER, Wired,  24 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Harvard University,  Eric Alterman

Northern Ireland's Top Cop: Negotiate with Al Qaeda

Sir Hugh Orde, Northern Ireland's top cop and potential candidate to head the London Police, says we ought to think about negotiating with Al Qaeda. More cops and counterterror agents won't be enough to deal with Osama's followers, he contends. So it's ...

From KRIS ALEXANDER, Wired,  4 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Al-Qaeda,  Osama bin Laden,  U.S. Republican Party

Ricin Found in Las Vegas, Gil Grissom Unavailble for Comment

A man who stayed in a Las Vegas hotel room where ricin was found is in critical condition at a hospital, where he has been since mid-February, said a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department official. A man is in critical condition after exposure to ...

From KRIS ALEXANDER, Wired,  29 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Central Intelligence Agency,  U.S. Republican Party

Austin Debate, Deboned

So I was at the big debate last night. Here's what I saw, on the security issues: IRAQ. In my mind, none of the candidates have yet to answer the "so what?" question on Iraq.  What happens when we draw down?  Obama says that he will "have all of our ...

From KRIS ALEXANDER, Wired,  22 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  George W. Bush,  John Kerry

Debates are Dangerous

On a personal note, I will be attending the Democratic debate in Austin as a *gasp* member of the press.  (Which ain't typical, for this Army boy.)  I might even commit a random, senseless act of journalism.  DANGER ROOM isn't a political site, and I ...

From KRIS ALEXANDER, Wired,  20 Feb 2008

Torture, Same As It Ever Was

Many Americans were puzzled by the news, in 1902, that United States soldiers were torturing Filipinos with water. The United States, throughout its emergence as a world power, had spoken the language of liberation, rescue, and freedom. This was the ...

From KRIS ALEXANDER, Wired,  20 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Robert Hughes,  John Philip Sousa,  John McCain

Mas "Mata Policias" de Mexico

An "In Depth, Under Cover" shocking news story. Criminals like guns. Wow I never would have suspected. Maybe if these mental midgets did some real journalism they would find out that the AP ammo is restriced Law Enforcement only. So unless American ...

From KRIS ALEXANDER, Wired,  6 Feb 2008

Guard and Reserves Unprepared for WMD Strike?

The commission's 400-page report concludes that the nation "does not have sufficient trained, ready forces available" to respond to a chemical, biological or nuclear weapons incident," an appalling gap that places the nation and its citizens at greater ...

From KRIS ALEXANDER, Wired,  1 Feb 2008
Related Topics: US Department of Defense,  Robert Gates

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