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Saturday, March 8, 2008

Threat Inflation

A must read

The $5.5 trillion spent on nuclear weapons—"enough to buy everything in the United States except for the land," noted Carl Sagan


The need to accurately calibrate foreign threats seems almost a political impossibility.

The historical costs of mis-estimation, on both sides of the equation, have been phenomenal.

Do you see a clear and present understanding of this among our Senatorial leaders, or Presidential hopefuls? Me neither ...