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- The threat of a so-called dirty bomb could be
the greatest nuclear threat facing the United
States, but it is also the least discussed. - U.S. Representative Zach Wamp
- The cesium-filled package
- uncovered in Moscows
- Izmaylovsky Park (1995).
- Oak Ridger, April 21, 2008
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- A nuclear device detonated near the White House
would kill roughly 100,000 people . - It's inevitableit's wistful to think that it
won't happen by 20 years. - Before the Senate Homeland Security Committee
- USA TODAY, April 16, 2008
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- They recommended expanding
- emergency personnel by training
- physicians like pharmacists and
- dentists to aid in all-hazards care,
- monitoring the exposure of first
- responders to radiation and
- clearly disseminating
- information to the public.
- Before the Senate Homeland Security Committee
- USA TODAY, April 16, 2008
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- The prospect of terrorists detonating a nuclear
device on American soil sometime within the next
quarter-century is real and growingSuch a
calamitous attack would represent a game-changing
event far exceeding the impact of 9/11 on the
nation." - USA Today, April 1, 2008
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- The greatest danger of another catastrophic
attack in the United States will materialize if
the world's most dangerous terrorists acquire the
world's most dangerous weaponsal Qaeda has tried
to acquire or make nuclear weapons for at least
ten years. - 9/11 Commission
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- Nuclear material secretly moved U.S.,
Russian and German officials secured nearly 600
pounds of abandoned, Soviet-made nuclear
materialU.S. officials considered the highly
enriched uranium a top target for
terroristsenough weapons-grade material to build
several rudimentary atomic bombs. - USA TODAY, December 18, 2006
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- "It may be only a matter of time before Al Qaeda
or other groups attempt to use chemical,
biological, radiological or nuclear weapons. We
must focus on that," CIA Director Porter Goss
told the Senate Intelligence Committee. - CNN, February 17, 2005
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- The survey found that the most significant risk
of a WMD attack was from a radiological weapon,
or a so-called "dirty bomb," in which radioactive
material is put into a conventional explosive
device. - Survey of 80 WMD Experts, Commissioned by
- U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- CNN Special Report, June 22, 2005
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- But "what keeps me up at night, he said, is a
scenario that involves a dirty bomb, a
radiological device strapped with explosives,
making it through the worlds shipping system and
exploding, say, in Chicago. - Stephen Flynn, a former U.S. Coast Guard
commander and one of the nations
most-listened-to experts on port security, before
testifying on Capitol Hill before the House Armed
Services Committee - Chicago Times, March 2, 2006
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- Many experts say the risk of a terrorist nuclear
attack is low but no longer unthinkable, given
the spread of atomic materials and know-how. - NY Times, February 2, 2006
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- There are millions of radiation sources
worldwide that terrorists could use to turn into
"dirty bombs" - and controls to prevent them
being stolen are poor in over a hundred
countries. This is the stark new warning today by
the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
in Vienna. - New Scientist, June 2002
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- The simple fact remains that there are
literally tons of nuclear materials in more than
40 countries around the world. It only takes a
few kilograms for terrorists to make a bomb and
threaten lives. To ensure 100 percent safety, the
government and NEST investigators would have to
make sure that all of this potentially lethal
material doesn't fall into the wrong hands. - Secret Government Team - Fights to Negate Nuclear
Threat - ABC News, October11, 2005
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- Thefts of less threatening nuclear byproducts,
especially isotopes of strontium, cesium and
partially enriched uranium, have been reported
more frequently. In November 1995, Chechen rebels
placed a functioning "dirty bomb" using dynamite
and cesium 137 in a Moscow Park. They did not
detonate it. Al Qaeda is closely aligned with the
Chechens. - Washington Post, March 3, 2002
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- "If terrorists were to obtain nuclear or
radiological material and smuggle it into this
country, the consequences could be catastrophic,"
said Republican Senator Susan Collins, the
chairwoman of the panel. - U.S. Senator Susan Collins,
- Chairman Senate Homeland Security Committee
- BBC, March 29, 2006
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- There have been plenty of efforts by terrorist
smugglers to acquire these nuclear
materialsbetween 1993 and 2004, there were 662
confirmed cases of smuggling nuclear and
radiological materials, and those were just the
cases that we know about. Of those confirmed
cases, 21 involved materials that could be used
to produce a nuclear weapon, and over 400
involved materials that could be used to make a
dirty bomb. It is clear that this threat is very
real and deserves our utmost attention. - U.S. Senator Jon Kyl,
- Chairman, Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on
Terrorism, Technology and - Homeland Security
- July 27, 2006
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- U.N. Agency 30 Countries Could Soon Have
Nuclear Weapons The head of the U.N. nuclear
agency warned Monday that as many as 30 countries
could soon have technology that would let them
produce atomic weapons "in a very short time,"
joining the nine states known or suspected to
have such arms. - IAEA, October 16, 2006
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- Nuclear material secretly moved U.S.,
Russian and German officials secured nearly 600
pounds of abandoned, Soviet-made nuclear
materialU.S. officials considered the highly
enriched uranium a top target for
terroristsenough weapons-grade material to build
several rudimentary atomic bombs. - USA TODAY, December 18, 2006
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- Al Qaeda seeking nuclear kit for attacks UK
official an Al Qaeda linked individual
was jailed for a minimum of 40 years for plotting
to blow up the New York Stock Exchange and carry
out attacks in Britain with gas-filled limousines
and a "dirty bomb - Reuters, November 13, 2006
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