I've been wondering what the EU's High Representative Javier Solana has been up to. This morning I found out.

It seems Solana, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and former United States Senator Sam Nunn have been busy at NATO headquarters.

What were they doing? They were presenting a closed-door war game to demonstrate to over 50 European officials what would happen if al-Qaeda exploded a nuclear device near NATO's headquarters in Brussels Read about it here.

The computerized simulation they presented revealed over 40,000 would be killed immediately -- spreading panic across Europe, and the world's economy would go into turmoil.

And according to the report, Senator Nunn said:

We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe. To win this race, we have to achieve cooperation on a scale we've never seen or attempted before.

One more thing: Solana's Mr. Terror was there too, Gijs de Vries.

Yes in deed, Solana is taking his mandate to fight a global war against terror seriously. In order to fight this war, he would have to mobilize his people -- to make them see the threat.

And, that's what he's been up to.