We are in the allergy season with lots of mustard stalks in the hills, and that may have some effect. Niven and I are working on The Burning City to finalize it. There's some chance it will be a real best seller. We sure hope so. NATO is saying that we used an old map and that is what caused the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.
Any damn fool can tell the difference.
So the explanation makes less sense than damn foolishness. The cover story is more suspicious than the event. A vacant lot doesn't look like a building to radar, and when you illuminate a target with a laser, presumably you have either radar or visual observation or both. We owe it to the world to have resonably competent people dropping bombs. Or not drop them at all.