Nuclear Threat to US Continues to Grow

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Excerpt: Weapons of mass destruction have made it possible for a small nation, or even a sub-national group, to kill as many innocent people in a day as national armies killed in months of fighting during World War II.


Experts: Nuclear Threat to US Continues to Grow
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Last week, top terrorism experts appeared before the Senate to testify about the growing threat America faces from nuclear terrorism: specifically, the nation’s large cities.

According to USA Today, prepared testimony from Gary Anthony Ackerman, research director of the Homeland Security Department-funded National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses for Terrorism, said, “The prospect of terrorists detonating a nuclear device on American soil sometime within the nest quarter-century is real and growing. Such a calamitous attack would represent a game-changing event far exceeding the impact of 9/11 on the nation.”

And, according to Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, “we collectively have not done enough to suppress trafficking and ensure the security of all nucler materials worldwide.” He reminds us that “al Qaeda’s nuclear intent remains clear,” according to near-monthly reports of individuals trying to smuggle “real or purported” nuclear material.

Since 9/11, a number of terror plots have been thwarted before they could be carried out. Here’s a partial list, courtesy of FOXNews.com:

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