Posthuman Blues

Report Urges Tighter Nuclear Controls

"Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. wondered aloud one day in 2002 whether someone could build an atomic weapon from parts available on the open market. His audience, the leaders of the government's nuclear laboratories, said it could be done."




"Goddamned kids!"


And it can -- pretty easily, too. I can readily envision a bunch of screwed-up teenagers (think Columbine) building a no-kidding nuclear bomb in a garage somewhere and blowing a city off the face of the map. (But since they'd most likely be home-grown white boys, I bet they'd never be called "terrorists.")

Thanks to Sauceruney for the lead.