| Even a "Dirty Bomb" (some
nuclear waste and regular explosives) can render a city uninhabitable for
30,000 years ! We must take EVERY step necessary to prevent this. The pacifists are going to have a city destroyed before they will understand the steps we MUST take. One terrorist today can kill 100,000's of people, too easily. THAT is why we just cannot take the slightest chance. It is a threat with no precedent. We must have the foresight to deal with it correctly. But we are not going to learn until a city is laid waste. Only then will we seriously act to ensure radioactive material is secure worldwide. History has taught us that passiveness at the wrong time can cause more deaths than ANY preventive action would. The British leadership in 1938, returning from meeting Hitler, with the "Peace in our time" message might otherwise have saved millions of jews and Europeans. Preventive, concerted European action, with the help of the USA, could have deterred Hitler instead of waiting 7 years. We needed visionaries foretelling the carnage to be heard. Heed ye this. |
"A nuclear terror act is highly likely.” Dr. Graham Allison, Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government |
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| If the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center had involved a nuclear device instead of a conventional bomb, it would have obliterated all of Lower Manhattan. | Unfortunately, acquiring unsecured radioactive substances and sneaking them into the U.S. would not be that difficult, Allison says. | |
In the nuclear weapons case, there is only a finite amount of fissile material,
either highly enriched uranium or plutonium, and it is almost impossible for
anyone to make plutonium or highly enriched uranium unless they are a state that
has a big, visible, complicated technical production process. What's needed is a
concerted effort to contain the spread of existing
nuclear material, in which the U.S.
must lead the rest of the world. This material and these weapons are too
dangerous to the rest of us for it to be left in ownership of uncontrolled
entities or uncooperative regimes.
Securing all such weapons and materials would be a vast undertaking, because, oh
my God, that means securing 70,000 to 80,000 real or potential nuclear weapons
in Russia. And you'd have to do the same in Pakistan and elsewhere. And then
there are research reactors.
We could have President
Putin
as an ally in a heartbeat. China is easy.
France and Britain
are easy. Pakistan
is hard but if China supports it, they'd go with it in
Pakistan. And then going and rounding up the rest, I think it becomes a vast, complicated, and expensive but doable job.
In Belgrade (Yugoslavia), despite the fact that we were bombing that city
in the war, we left a research reactor with enough highly enriched uranium to
make three nuclear weapons. A joint
Russian-American initiative
in August of
last year raided it. That's the lengths we
have to go. And there are plenty of other
places where such dangerous threats exist.
The argument that attacking Iraq only creates more terrorists
is non-existent. We could not have been any more unpopular with Arabs than were
already, no matter what we did. Also, most Arab peoples want to see us install
democracy in Iraq (or will admire us for it in the future). We should not pander to the
Arabian country's autocratic rulers. We need to encourage democracy in
ALL Arab countries (and gain future appreciation from the Arab peoples).
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Iraq Provokes Chasm between Washington and International Community
Bush administration hard evidence
When the UNO, the IAEA, the Secretary General of the UN, most of the
international community and even the USA’s staunchest ally, the United
Kingdom, more time to the weapons inspectors, George Bush evidence to the UN
Security Council regime in Iraq has ties to Al-Qaeda
When the UNO, the IAEA, the Secretary General of the UN, most of the international community and the USA’s staunchest ally, the United Kingdom, more time to the weapons inspectors, George Bush the USA will present evidence to the UN Security Council the regime in Iraq has ties to Al-Qaeda.
Dr. Hans Blix, the leader of the UNMOVIC inspection team, told the security council Iraq is not cooperating: access sites inspect more needs to be done there are missing documents evidence that biological and chemical weapons have not been destroyed. Iraq war protest peace rallies march a mistake
The hasty tacking together by the Iraqi authorities of 12,000 pages on the weapons programs left its mark: there are gaps and inconsistencies. For the UNO, these are questions that must be solved and clarified. For the USA, it is evidence that Saddam Hussein is lying. Iraq war protest peace rally march a mistake
Hans Blix the Iraqi regime is not cooperating. Mohammed El Baradei, of the International Atomic Energy Agency declared also that there is evidence that Iraq has a nuclear weapons program, Washington. With our verification system now in place, non cooperation by Iraq, provide Iraq has nuclear weapons programmed
Kofi Annan, Council time, Secretary-General said in the UNO Headquarters in New York.
Regional leaders president Vladimir Putin that the onus is very much upon Iraq to collaborate with the weapons inspectors. Washington repeatedly declares that it has “evidence” that Iraq is hiding its WMD programs hard facts. The British intelligence services, a link between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda. pictures demonstrators anti-war demonstration
Bosnia and Kosovo, the USA ties with Al-Qaeda Saddam Hussein. Suspecting that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. Fearing that some day in the future such weapons, if they exist, might fall into the wrong hands grounds, under international law, to mount a full-scale war. demonstrators anti-war demonstration
How many countries can declare that their nuclear power plants are 100% secure against terrorist raids to destroy or to steal? Al-Qaeda are present in tens of countries have links with Al-Qaeda. pictures demonstrators anti-war demonstration
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