{"id":201,"date":"2004-12-26T18:17:51","date_gmt":"2004-12-26T22:17:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-05-21T18:38:19","modified_gmt":"2006-05-21T22:38:19","slug":"what_s_the_cost_of_a_nuclear_weapon_get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fgiasson.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/12\/26\/what_s_the_cost_of_a_nuclear_weapon_get\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the cost of a nuclear weapon? &#8211; Get back the field agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<strong>What&#8217;s the cost of a nuclear weapon?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Get back the field agents<\/em><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/click\/rss\/0.91\/public\/-\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/4118939.stm\">I read this article <\/a>I was thinking of a post that I wrote some months ago.<\/p>\n<p>This article restart the question: Why field agents are essential in information gathering? There was a shift in the nineties to cut off field agents and put efforts of information gathering on airwaves or wires taping. As I said, it&#8217;s probably a big mistake decry by many CIA agents. Hopefully the CIA had infiltrated the ground in 1990. They had been able to get prime information on the network; they used it and put down Khan&#8217;s network around the world. Some expert critic the delay of the intervention. I&#8217;m not in position to put an opinion on that fact but my point is that without well trained field agents I don&#8217;t think that the modus operandi of the network was ever discovered. Don&#8217;t forget that other such networks can exists or can emerge from the ashes of Khan&#8217;s network. There is probably money to do and power to get.<\/p>\n<p>This rise a question: how can cost a nuclear bomb? This question is interesting when you consider some things. First, it&#8217;s a very specific type of traffic with quite few clients. The risk is greater than narco-traffic and narco-traffickers can do billions of dollars. Then how can cost a nuclear bomb?<\/p>\n<p>Rogue states can afford it. Big criminal groups can probably too. What&#8217;s the real danger of such a situation? I don&#8217;t think that anybody know the answers to such questions. We can only guess the threat by analyzing the short know history of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the cost of a nuclear weapon? Get back the field agents When I read this article I was thinking of a post that I wrote some months ago. This article restart the question: Why field agents are essential in information gathering? There was a shift in the nineties to cut off field agents and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fgiasson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fgiasson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fgiasson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgiasson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgiasson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fgiasson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fgiasson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgiasson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgiasson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}