The Fall issue of Foreign Policy has an article, "The Great Superterrorism Scare," which critiques the national "obsession" with the threat of terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction: http://jya.com/superterror.htm (36K) It examines the reasons for the obsession, who is promoting it, who benefits, and what problems it may cause by diverting attention and resources away from genuine threats of lesser magnitude from religious cults, loners, antitaxers, militias and those with raging paranoia against the government. It's worth noting that the author recommends arrests be allowed of suspicious domestic hostiles though there is no proof of criminal intent, and that the FBI and CIA be freed from limitations on surveilling and investigating US citizens.