Sunday, October 31, 2004
Looted Nuclear Material: Scarier than I Realized
Until I read this article in USATODAY.com, I was annoyed, and slightly flabergasted at the administration's lack of pre-war planning. After reading this article, I am OUTRAGED and scared. The military TOLD them they didn't have enough troops to secure the sites; the administration downplayed it, even "mocked it" according to this piece.
SEVEN major nuclear sites have been extensively looted. SEVEN. In one case, the International Atomic Energy Agency called D.C. and told us we needed to get our butts over to the Tuwaitha facility and we took two weeks to get there, by which time, 22 tons of uranium were missing -- more than enough to arm a dirty bomb.
And what can a nuclear-enabled dirty bomb do? Kill thousands. Render large areas uninhabitable for years.
But certainly nobody could get one of those things over here, could they? Well, apparently they can:
SEVEN major nuclear sites have been extensively looted. SEVEN. In one case, the International Atomic Energy Agency called D.C. and told us we needed to get our butts over to the Tuwaitha facility and we took two weeks to get there, by which time, 22 tons of uranium were missing -- more than enough to arm a dirty bomb.
And what can a nuclear-enabled dirty bomb do? Kill thousands. Render large areas uninhabitable for years.
But certainly nobody could get one of those things over here, could they? Well, apparently they can:
"Should an organization such as al-Qaeda acquire a dirty bomb, it is unlikelyHow is it that NO ONE has been fired over this stuff? This goes beyond incompetent. To me, this is criminal negligence.
authorities could keep it out of the U.S. or prevent it from being detonated.
Under such circumstances, a terrorist group would not even actually need to
possess a second device; it would merely just have to say one was planted in a
U.S. city. Imagine what the outbound highways would look like or the overall
effect on our economy, our security, our civil rights, our way of life."
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