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Kuros
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 Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:50 pm Post subject: 50% chance terrorists will strike major city w/ WMD by 2013 |
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Nuclear or biological attack called likely
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The report, ordered by Congress last year, concludes that terrorists are more likely to obtain materials for a biological attack than to buy or steal nuclear weapons. But it says the nuclear threat is growing rapidly, in part because of the growing global supply of nuclear material and technology.
"Without greater urgency and decisive action by the world community, it is more likely than not that a weapon of mass destruction will be used in a terrorist attack somewhere in the world by the end of 2013." |
What can be done?
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It calls for aggressive steps to secure unguarded stockpiles of nuclear weapons material such as uranium and plutonium, as well as coordinated international efforts to discover and disrupt smuggling rings that traffic in atomic technology.
It also urges a dramatic overhaul of the international institutions and treaties that have sought to slow the spread of nuclear weapons since the 1950s. The landmark Non-Proliferation Treaty should be dramatically toughened, the report recommends, with the addition of real penalties for violators and a more robust International Atomic Energy Agency to carry out inspections and enforce the rules.
The United States should push for a global consensus banning states such as Iran and North Korea from adding to their stockpiles of enriched uranium and plutonium, while also ensuring supplies of commercial reactor fuel for countries that renounce nuclear weapons, the report says. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Commission members urged Barack Obama to take a tough line with both Iran and North Korea. If the president-elect seeks to engage the two countries diplomatically, they said, he should do so "from a position of strength, emphasizing both the benefits of them abandoning their nuclear programs and the enormous costs of failing to do so." Nuclear weapons in the hands of either regime not only pose a threat in their own right but also increase the chances of a destabilizing arms race, the report says. |
Hear hear. |
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sharkey
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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| conservative fear mongering |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| It is possible that they could use a major lethal weapon to cause havoc. You don't need a nuclear bomb to kill so many people. What is needed is to do two things- help assist certain countries financially, development wise, and encourage friendly relations between the US and certain nations. The governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan need to coordinate their people to fight terrorism culturally and with force in many cases. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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| sharkey wrote: |
| conservative fear mongering |
The Commission has two co-chairs. Yeah, that Gary Hart sure is a hardliner. And that Warren Rudman is a real conservative Republican. 
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| [Rudman] was known as a pragmatic centrist, to such an extent that President Clinton approached him in 1994 about replacing departing Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen in Clinton's cabinet, an offer that Rudman declined |
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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Compunction Junction
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| Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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| They're trying to incite terror. There's no need for any MAJOR attacks now. Just small intermittent ones to keep the fear goin'. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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| G. Hart is the new right-wing, Kuros. I even hear he has a thing going on the side with S. Palin... |
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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Location: Training future GS competitors.....
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| Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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| We've been hearing this for the last 8 years. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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| canuckistan wrote: |
| We've been hearing this for the last 8 years. |
It doesn't change the fact that its true.
Denying there's a serious national security threat posed by WMD is like denying climate change. Okay, not quite as bad as denying climate change, but nearly as bad. |
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sharkey
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 12:44 am Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| canuckistan wrote: |
| We've been hearing this for the last 8 years. |
It doesn't change the fact that its true.
Denying there's a serious national security threat posed by WMD is like denying climate change. Okay, not quite as bad as denying climate change, but nearly as bad. |
lol youre scared.
you guys dont have anything to worry about, bush wont be around to orchestrate attacks on americans, again |
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 1:32 am Post subject: |
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| sharkey wrote: |
| Kuros wrote: |
| canuckistan wrote: |
| We've been hearing this for the last 8 years. |
It doesn't change the fact that its true.
Denying there's a serious national security threat posed by WMD is like denying climate change. Okay, not quite as bad as denying climate change, but nearly as bad. |
lol youre scared.
you guys dont have anything to worry about, bush wont be around to orchestrate attacks on americans, again |
I bet you look cute posting while wearing your tin foil hat.  |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 4:31 am Post subject: |
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The sad and scary reality is that the information to make WMDs and dirty bombs is on the internet and has been for a long time.
The only thing any government can do is to fund police to investigate terrorist cells and keep their fingers crossed that the worst of the worst does not happen. It is a real threat. So are major earthquakes in the New Madrid earthquake zone. All you can do is to prepare to combat the threat to the degree that is possible--act proactively to prevent what can be prevented and be prepared for the disasters that cannot be prevented. |
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 6:10 am Post subject: |
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| T-J wrote: |
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lol youre scared.
you guys dont have anything to worry about, bush wont be around to orchestrate attacks on americans, again |
I bet you look cute posting while wearing your tin foil hat. |
We'd be able to see what is on your head if you took it out of the ground.
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 6:50 am Post subject: |
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| canuckistan wrote: |
| We've been hearing this for the last 8 years. |
I am sure many others have expressed such cynicism over the last eight years. Where is it? Oh yes...In related news...
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| Indian officials are under pressure to explain the lapse of security that allowed [Mumbai] to occur. Indian security forces have confirmed to CNN that not only did U.S. officials warn them of a waterborne attack in Mumbai -- they were told twice... |
CNN Reports
Viva the Western far left and "the rest of the world's" antiBush wisdom... |
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 7:32 am Post subject: |
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| bacasper wrote: |
| T-J wrote: |
| sharkey wrote: |
lol youre scared.
you guys dont have anything to worry about, bush wont be around to orchestrate attacks on americans, again |
I bet you look cute posting while wearing your tin foil hat. |
We'd be able to see what is on your head if you took it out of the ground.
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Good one, but I've got my head just high enough to see what is coming and yet low enough not to get it blown off, thank you very much. |
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