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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (131246)	5/3/2004 10:18:16 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

A lot of people believe that if Al Qaeda could get its hands on nuclear bombs, they'd use them. In fact, I am willing to bet that if you took a poll of Americans, the vote for that hypothetical would be approaching certainty. Militating against that eventuality is only the fact that these items are rather complicated, and require the services of rather skillful engineer types, who tend, by and large, not to be Islamic fundamentalists. How skillful? Well, the Nazis couldn't make a nuclear bomb, although history tells us that the engineers the Nazis dragooned into their version of the Manhattan Project were probably up to the task, but unwilling to deliver. The US succeeded, no surprise, we're good at stuff like that. But then, we had Jews and Eastern Europeans working on the Manhattan Project, we don't discriminate that way. The Russians got a big jump on their own bombs by stealing US technology via spies. Similar to the way that the Chinese stole our space technology. But, once the genie is out of the box, it's out.