To: tsigprofit who wrote (17591 ) 1/26/2004 5:37:50 PM From: Bucky Katt Respond to of 48461 That is pure junk science, pay no attention to it, as weather patterns change, and to put the global warming stamp on that is just not valid. It's the Hegelian Dialectic all over agin... We live in the real world, so read this informative piece>thebulletin.org The Bush administration's still-secret December 2001 Nuclear Posture Review complained about the "limitations in the present nuclear force" and asserted that "new capabilities must be developed to defeat emerging threats." "With a more effective earth penetrator," the report claimed, "many buried targets could be attacked using a weapon with a much lower [nuclear] yield than would be required with a surface burst." Of course, "penetrating weapons with large yields" would still be needed for the "defeat of very deep or large underground facilities." Fast forward>>>> The notion that terrorists would either need or choose to develop weapons of mass destruction in some remote, impregnable fortress that could only be breached with nuclear weapons is, to say the least, fanciful, even bizarre. Senator Graham must have watched one too many action thrillers on late-night TV. After all, the 9/11 hijackers did not skulk in some remote bunker before they attacked. For months they lived among us and took flying lessons. A simple terrorist weapon would more likely be developed in some nondescript needle of a basement laboratory, buried within the haystack of one of the world's great mega-cities, than in some fortified Schloss bin Laden. An improvised terrorist device using highly enriched uranium could be smuggled into this country in virtually undetectable segments, and then assembled in any one of 50 million suburban garages.