The “other” chemical warfare: memoir of BZ, LSD research

Over at 10 Zen Monkeys there’s an interview with Dr. James Ketchum, one of the chief scientists involved with Edgewood Arsenal’s investigation of incapacitating agents such as LSD and BZ. Dr. Ketchum has self-published his memoir of this research during the 1960s, Chemical Warfare: Secrets Almost Forgotten. The book’s web site is one [...]

Doomsday clock moves closer to midnight

[Updated post here.]
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS) will move the minute hand of the “Doomsday Clock” on January 17, 2007, the first such change to the Clock since February 2002. The major new step reflects growing concerns about a “Second Nuclear Age” marked by grave threats, including: nuclear ambitions in Iran and North [...]

DNI’s annual threat assessment: no surprises

Yesterday, Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte released his annual threat assessment to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, noting the biggest terrorism threat to the U.S. remains al Qaeda, and greatest proliferation threats remain Iran and North Korea. He also noted increasing cooperation between Syria and Iran to support terrorism.
State-supported terrorists can access [...]

Fred Thompson asks why it took Bush this long

Thompson’s comments about President Bush’s speech this week, and a question I have been asking for a very long time.  Short audio here or read it here.
The question, somewhat cynically,
I’ll bet that a lot of folks who support the president on this are asking themselves “what if we’d taken care of business this way two years [...]