“What worries me most about the robust penetrator is that some idiot might try to use it.”
Congressman David Hobson, head of the US House of Representatives energy appropriations subcommittee, which has voted to drop development of the proposed “bunker buster” nuclear weapon (Chicagotribune.com, 11 September)
“Mauna Loa is grumbling, growling and getting ready to come out of its den.”
Don Swanson, scientist-in-charge at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, warning that the world’s largest volcano could soon erupt for the first time in 20 years (CNN.com, 13 September)
“Like the war on terror or the drive for responsible free trade, climate change is an international issue that…
