To put off grading for a little while longer, here are a handful of links.
Nuclear and Disaster
Sir Martin Rees, “Can We Prevent the End of the World?”
US Government
Charlie Savage and James Risen, “Senate Rejects Claim on Hunt for Bin Laden.”
Alexis C. Madrigal, “What It’s Like to Work for Donald Rumsfeld.”
The Hyperarchival Parallax 