The New Nuclear Danger by Helen Caldicott, New Press, $16.95, ISBN 1565847407
IF George W. Bush didn’t have Osama bin Laden, he would have had to invent him. In 1999, the US President-to-be complained that when he was growing up during the cold war he knew who the enemy was. “Today we’re not so sure who they are, but we know they’re there,” he said.
Now he knows who the enemy is once more, and what to do about it. The Bush administration has used the 11 September attacks on the US to argue for the abandonment of weapons-control treaties…
