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assemble a nuclear weapon on short notice. The cost of actually building a nuke, risking a western military response (or even the long-term continuation of the economic sanctions currently in place), might be too high to for the current, extremely unpopular government to risk.My calculations in the paragraph above assume an Iran that is truculent and hostile, but not irrational and, I believe, this week s puny attempts to respond to the death of its scientists confirm my assumption. I ll have more about this in my print column on Thursday. Joe Klein is TIME's political columnist and author of six books, most recently Politics Lost. His weekly TIME column, "In the Arena," covers national and international affairs. acked by the full faith of the Oracle of Omaha Apparently, Nebraska is where you go when you re running a company and want to prove to the world that everything is okay.

First, he put $5 billion into Goldman Sachs, and now Warren Buffett, the Great Value Investor of the Missouri River Valley, is buying $3 billion of perpetual preferred stock in General Electric. Here s the release GE put out—note Buffett s vote of confidence. Never you mind, you people who fret about the health of GE s finance arm. And it s no surprise that Buffett got another great deal for himself: a 10% dividend on shares that are callable after three years at a 10% premium. Nice. The U.S. army remains wanting to get Afghans to pay attention to its weather reports, warnings of suspected IED places, and propaganda – that’s why it is getting another 21,000 hand-cranked radios to provide away to Afghan locals.The deal is worth $123,480, or $5.88 for every radio, according on the agreement award announcement late very last 7 days.Hundreds of countless numbers of this kind of radios are already dispersed throughout much of Afghanistan, exactly where signifies of electronic interaction could be scant or non-existent.“For a while the Individuals dropped the WR-004 `