Vital Systems Security

It will be interesting to follow how the democrats play security in the upcoming election cycle. Thus far, they have tended to emphasize “competence” and more recently “getting out of Iraq.” But it would, from our perspective, be more interesting if they started proposing a new approach, one that, let’s say, emphasized vital systems security rather than invading other countries.

But the rhetoric is heating up. Check out this article from the New York Observer in which Bob Kerrey (now New School President) rips into Giuliani for his comments on the democrats and terrorism. The best line:

“When [Giuliani] turned and said to Bernie Kerik, ‘Thank God George Bush is President,’ …What he should have said was, ‘Why the fuck didn’t George Bush call us and tell us this was going to happen?’”

He also attacks Giuliani’s preparations between WTC I and WTC II. We already know about this, but the emphasis on the domestic preparedness side of things is welcome.

This recent issue of Social Studies of Science contains a series of articles on Hurricane Katrina.

The New York Sun has an article today about counter-proliferation efforts by NYPD in New York. Of interest is a new attention to chlorine tanks following the increasingly widespread use of chlorine in attacks in Iraq.