Word: nested
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Buchanan, the feminist movement is against the will of God. "Rail as they will against discrimination, women are not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism.... The momma bird builds the nest. So it was, so it ever shall be. Ronald Reagan is not responsible for this...
Assuming the threat sounds genuine, the team's first crucial task is to locate the bomb, which is presumably hidden. After flying in from around the country on military transport, NEST searchers divide the threatened city--the cia and fbi assume terrorists will target an urban area in order to incur maximum casualties--into search grids. Energy Department aircraft, specially fitted with photographic equipment, are sent aloft to take shots of the city for detailed maps that can be used if intelligence sources narrow the search to a particular area or type of structure. Helicopters equipped with radiation detectors...
...searchers, "Becky" (she asked that her real name not be used), described how she made her rounds on a recent training exercise in a large city. A 31-year-old Energy Department employee who began training as a nest searcher seven years ago, Becky and 10 colleagues were assigned to hunt for a simulated nuclear device in a hotel with 32 floors and 2,052 rooms...
...Though NEST has yet to find a nuclear device, the team has unearthed conventional bombs. The only case involving nuclear material involved an employee at a Wilmington, North Carolina, nuclear fuel plant who stole a small amount of low-grade uranium and threatened to disperse it. The fbi quickly recovered the uranium, and NEST didn't have to be summoned...
...case a real nuclear device ever is found, NEST's diagnostic and assessment teams have all kinds of equipment, such as portable X-ray machines, with which to peek under the bomb's wrapping. An instrument that looks like a Dustbuster is swept over the outside of the bomb to vacuum up any faint but telling fumes it might emit...