The Army team searching for WMD in Iraq is giving up. But the administration continues to make happy talk about finding them.

In an essay against going to war in Iraq, I predicted that one of the ways this would make us less safe is by dispersing dangerous materials, possibly to terrorists or other rogue states. Step one in this process has already happened.

Meanwhile, new efforts are underway for our own development of battlefield nukes, which probably gives us great credibility when we tell other nations that “nukes are bad, mmmmkay?”