by Tan Copsey
As a bloke from a small nicely radiation-free little island I can’t help but fret and worry about the slightly luminous glow covering the news this week.
Slate has put its oar in over the super-fantastic mystery of the Russian spy dying of radiation. Noting large and dangerous implications involving polonium, terrorists, and that giant bloke from the bond films. Incidentally we at oD are now slightly more careful in our choice of sushi.
Haaretz has an interesting, if ultimately still misguided, piece on the development of Israel’s peculiar maybe-we-do/ maybe-we-don’t nuclear policy. Which of course was blown away this week when Ehud Olmert revealed the world’s worst kept secret. Poor old Mordecai Vanunu must be rather pissed off.
All this talk seems to miss the ultimate point – which is that, as Science Daily points out, if there is a nuclear confrontation of almost any sort a large number of us are !$^&ed. That shouldn’t exactly be news to members of the reality based community, but then again given the number of voices I’ve heard advocating the use of ‘tactical’ nuclear weapons, any reminder must be a good reminder.
Oh and our friend Sean Hannity (you now, lovely bloke on Fox news) hosts a interesting thread featuring prescient individuals who are quite convinced that Iran possesses a nuclear weapon and are prepared to speculate that North Korea has in fact tested it for them.
Today’s fallout ends with Newshog offering an interesting solution to global warming.
