Word: nuking
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Nuclear weapons are nuclear weapons, regardless of whether they are tactical or strategic. A nuke designed to blow up a city—rather than a state—is still a nuke...
...brutal," a U.S. official told TIME. It was also highly classified and closely guarded. Under the aegis of the White House's Counterterrorism Security Group, part of the National Security Council, the suspected nuke was kept secret so as not to panic the people of New York. Senior FBI officials were not in the loop. Former mayor Rudolph Giuliani says he was never told about the threat. In the end, the investigators found nothing and concluded that DRAGONFIRE's information was false. But few of them slept better. They had made a chilling realization: if terrorists did manage to smuggle...
...learn the other proper lesson from Enron, and let energy deregulation continue apace. It's not perfect, and it's not easy, but until energy is sold on the open market at market prices from a variety of suppliers, nobody except Big Oil and Big Coal (and Big Nuke) is going to have a chance...
...sign the deal when Bush travels to Moscow in the spring, senior Administration officials say. But the Administration is preparing an important hedge in the agreement: the ceiling proposed on offensive missiles won't be binding. Hard-liners in the Administration want a free hand to rebuild their nuke stockpile if and when they please. "We don't want to be limited by treaty from going up," says a senior Administration official. The Russians apparently are still under the impression that the signed document will make the nuke cuts binding. "The Russians may think it will be," says the senior...
...Washington is simply feeling its way, trying to balance security and cost while tending to the countless other battles it must fight on the home front. Given the power of even a single rogue nuke, however, this battle is clearly one of the most important. "The consequences of failure would be far worse than Sept. 11," says Alexander Strezov, a Bulgarian scientist who helps investigate trafficking cases. "To be honest, I don't want to think about it." The U.S., unfortunately, doesn't have that luxury...