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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (189830)	10/6/2001 11:56:54 PM
From: chalu2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

While we fiddled around here with hanging chads and such, we ignored storm warnings, and allowed an unstable Islamic regime (Pakistan) to produce dozens of nuclear weapons. For your further consideration, we've been warned of what may be next: "A terrorist with a little technical know-how and 20 pounds of smuggled plutonium could make a bomb powerful enough to destroy a city. That's what we should be worried about." -- U.S. Pentagon official, New York Times, May 13, 1996 "A special study prepared for the task force by a team of former U.S. nuclear weapons designers has established that crude nuclear bomb making, while not as simple as once supposed, can be accomplished with a sufficient quantity of reactor-grade plutonium (the kind separated by industry in some countries from the spent fuel of a power reactor) or highly enriched uranium (the kind used to fuel many research reactors) in metallic or possibly even in oxide form." -- Report of the International Task Force on Prevention of Nuclear Terrorism, 1986 "At the lowest level of sophistication, a potential proliferating state or subnational group using designs and technologies no more sophisticated than those used in first- generation nuclear weapons could build a nuclear weapon from reactor-grade plutonium that would have an assured, reliable yield of one or a few kilotons (and a probable yield significantly higher than that)." -- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Arms Control and Nonproliferation, October 1, 1996 "It is not a scare tactic to say that an Oklahoma City or World Trade Center bombing of the future could involve a terrorist's nuclear device." -- Hazel O'Leary, U.S. Secretary of Energy, Before the House Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Energy and Power, June 21, 1995