Missile defense is, in many ways, the poster child for expensive and technologically dubious US defense systems that survive based on misconceptions about their strategic benefits. A November 1 Letter to the Editor in the Washington Times by Admiral James A. Lyons, Jr. provides a classic example of these misconceptions.
“Want to Hear Something Really Scary? Zombies Are Real” Or at Least Could Be
Read the whole thing at the Center website here. Jules Zacher, a member of the Council for a Livable World’s Board of Director, and I wrote a haunting special to OpEdNews that ran yesterday on the threat posed to humanity by biological weapons. Here…
“Want to Hear Something Really Scary? Zombies Are Real” Or at Least Could Be
While zombies remain part of myth — we hope — the threat of human extinction from disease is very real.
Rebalancing Our National Security: The Benefits of Implementing a Unified Security Budget
Kingston Reif served on the Center for American Progress’ Task Force for a Unified Security Budget, contributing research on nuclear material security and non-proliferation funding to a new report.
“Want to Hear Something Really Scary? Zombies Are Real” Or at Least Could Be
Originally published in OpEdNews October 31, 2012. In September, just a few weeks before Halloween, Paul W. S. Anderson released the fifth installment of the Resident Evil story. The film finds the heroine, Alice, needing to escape from the Umbrella Corporation, an evil pharmaceutical company plotting world domination. Eventually, the story ends with Alice and […]