“America’s Margin Of Safety Is Shrinking, Not Growing”

The Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism will release its report this week. The bottom line:

The odds that terrorists will soon strike a major city with weapons of mass destruction are now better than even, a bipartisan congressionally mandated task force concludes in a draft study that warns of growing threats from rogue states, nuclear smuggling networks and the spread of atomic know-how in the developing world.

Gordon Chang’s prescription delineates the immense difficulty of doing anything to stop it:

We must, for instance, disarm North Korea, stop Iran and Syria, and stabilize Pakistan. And to do that, we have no choice but to summon the political will to end Russian and Chinese proliferation of nuclear technologies.

And end world hunger and cure cancer. WMD blogger Armchair Generalist is more sanguine about the actual threat. I fear the worst. It’s the way I am.