  We embed the supersymmetry breaking mechanism in N=1 SQCD of hep-th/0602239
in a smooth superstring theory using D-branes in the background R^4 \times
SL(2)_{k=1}/U(1) which smoothly captures the throat region of an intersecting
NS5-brane configuration. A controllable deformation of the supersymmetric
branes gives rise to the mass deformation of the magnetic SQCD theory on the
branes. The consequent instability on the open string worldsheet can be
followed onto a stable non-supersymmetric configuration of D-branes which
realize the metastable vacuum configuration in the field theory. The new brane
configuration is shown to backreact onto the background such as to produce
different boundary conditions for the string fields in the radial direction
compared to the supersymmetric configuration. In the string theory, this is
interpreted to mean that the supersymmetry breaking is explicit rather than
spontaneous.
