Grain of Salt

Desmond Jones:
"You have to take Paul Williams and Frontpage with a grain or maybe a truck load of salt."

Snouck:
The core of the article is the acquisition of Nuclear Arms by non-state actors, in this case Al-Qaeda. The fact staring us in the face is that Nuclear arms will not remain a State momopoly. Nuclear proliferation is a function of technology proliferation and with universities in the (former) Third World churning out Engineering graduates. The nuclear industry is being privatised so its technology will come or has already come into the hands of non-state actors. Check the wiki entry on A.Q. Khan, who is also mentioned in the Frontpagemag article.

Up until the late 1950ies only the Soviet Empire and the West had the know-how to built certain complicated devices.

We saw already with the latest round of fighting that the Iranians are now able to build sophisticated weapons that are a match for the weapons that Israel builds, such as fire guidance systems, anti-ships missiles and UAVs. Transferring these weapons to a non-state actor: Hizbollah. With interesting effects for all to see.

And with this the age of Industrial Warfare is becoming obsolete as well as the social system it has spawned: the Western Nation State.