Could someone please, please, just go and secure all of Russia's nukes? Now? Please?

Kevin Drum on Frank Confessore on Nuclear Terror...

This oddly echoes Tommy Franks, who said last year that a nuclear attack could cause Americans "to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass casualty-producing event." Franks was pilloried for that comment, but I don't think he was suggesting that martial law was a good idea. Rather, he was suggesting that it was a horrible but chillingly predictable reaction to a massive attack.

Unfortunately, nuclear proliferation really doesn't seem to be very high on George Bush's agenda...

Most experts on this kind of thing, as far as I have read, believe it's pretty much not 'if' but 'when' a nuclear attack will occur. Yet, somehow, tying down those nukes in Russia is just not as important as privatizing social security, being shocked about steroid use in major league baseball, and banning gay marriage.