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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