Subject:  So, is the nuke really missing? |
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Date Posted: 03:55:04 03/04/02 Mon
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's message, "Wow, peoples, this is unbelievable!!!!...." on 00:06:48 03/04/02 Mon
>This article From Time Magazine...
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>www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,214064,00.html
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>The Russkies "lost" a 10 kiloton nuclear weapon...
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>Can We Stop the Next Attack?
>Six months after Sept. 11, America has taken the fight
>to al-Qaeda. But behind the scenes, The CIA and FBI
>have been in a desperate scramble to fix a broken
>system before another strike comes
>Sunday, Mar. 03, 2002
>For a few harrowing weeks last fall, a group of U.S.
>officials believed that the worst nightmare of their
>lives—something even more horrific than 9/11—was about
>to come true. In October an intelligence alert went
>out to a small number of government agencies,
>including the Energy Department's top-secret Nuclear
>Emergency Search Team, based
>in Nevada. The report said that terrorists were
>thought to have obtained a 10-kiloton nuclear weapon
>from the Russian arsenal and planned to smuggle it
>into New York City. The source of the report was a
>mercurial agent code-named dragonfire, who
>intelligence officials believed was of
>"undetermined" reliability. But dragonfire's claim
>tracked with a report from a Russian general who
>believed his forces were missing a 10-kiloton device.
>Since the mid-'90s, proliferation experts have
>suspected that several portable nuclear devices might
>be missing from the Russian stockpile. That made the
>dragonfire report alarming. So did this: detonated in
>lower Manhattan, a
>10-kiloton bomb would kill some 100,000 civilians and
>irradiate 700,000 more, flattening everything in a
>half-mile diameter. And so counterterrorist
>investigators went on their highest state of alert.
>
>"It was brutal," a U.S. official told Time. It was
>also highly classified and closely guarded. Under the
>aegis of the White House's Counterterrorism Security
>Group, part of the National Security Council, the
>suspected nuke was
>kept secret so as not to panic the people of New York.
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I can understand them trying to keep it a secret although, I don't like it!
This may explain why the high tech nuke detector's have been placed all over. Especially, at our borders...
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