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...materials," a U.S. official told the New York Times. "But they didn't have any." Of course the material necessary to build a radiological bomb - which is simply a conventional explosive wrapped in radioactive material in order to disperse the contaminant - could conceivably be stolen from a number of civilian institutions, such as hospitals or food-irradiating plants. But some experts also raised questions about whether al Muhajir would have mustered the technical expertise to build a successful dirty bomb...
...Advani would really like to finish this proxy war, and perhaps do a bit more," says one diplomat. India has none of the checks and balances designed during the cold war to prevent a nuclear launch in anger. (Although India's military is comfortingly professional, nonpolitical and obedient to civilian control. The country's nukes are controlled by government scientists, and deployment orders come from the Prime Minister's office alone.) For his part, Advani denies any undue influence, or even the tag of "hawk"?although, characteristically, he describes communal violence under the BJP as "minimal," even after the shame...
...just as the September 11 terrorists created fearsome weapons out of America's own civilian transport system, their successors may seek to do the same with the U.S. civilian energy infrastructure. The International Atomic Energy Agency warned last fall that "we have been alerted to the potential of terrorists targeting nuclear facilities or using radioactive sources to incite panic, contaminate property, and even cause injury or death among civilian populations," and called for massive new investment in the security of the world's nuclear energy facilities. Indeed, the first order of business in defending against an Al Qaeda nuclear threat...
...that are plotted on to a computerized grid connected to the satellite-based Global Positioning System. Goddio says that he adapted the magnetometer for archaeological use in collaboration with the French Atomic Energy Commission, which develops the French Navy's submarine-detection equipment. Exclusive rights to the magnetometer's civilian use give Goddio his edge over the competition. "Wherever we dive, we find something," says Susan Henrickson, an American member of Goddio's underwater team. In the 1980s, Goddio concentrated on excavating shipwrecks, including a Chinese junk and the Spanish galleon San Diego, off the coast of the Philippines. Since...
...video is not simply raw footage of violence - the beheading scene is only a couple of seconds long - but a produced propaganda tape. Intercut with Pearl?s statement are war scenes from the Palestinian territories: an injured baby, Israeli soldiers. Using Muslim grievances to justify slaughtering a Jewish civilian should be insulting to all those whom the terrorists want to co-opt. But it evidently is not, given the terrorists? continuing ability to win recruits. We may already know that intellectually. But the video makes this noxious logic searingly real. I sweated through every moment of watching the damned thing...