Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cautionary tale told by David Rosenbaum, an independent nuclear analyst in Washington, is about blackmail on a huge and frightening scale. A terrorist group manages to construct a nuclear weapon and uses it to blast the top off a peak in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The President is then told that other bombs have been planted in three U.S. cities and will be detonated unless he agrees to their terms: a total overseas troop withdrawal, an annual donation of $50 billion for Third World projects and the release of all black and Hispanic prisoners. It sounds like the stuff...
However, a terrorist bomb would still be so large that it would probably have to be assembled in the U.S. Making a bomb that could fit into a suitcase, says Taylor, would probably be beyond the capabilities of military designers outside the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The smallest nuclear device developed by the U.S. (SADM). Deployed since 1964, it can be carried by one man and is designed to destroy dams, bridges and similar installations. According to William Arkin, a defense specialist with the Institute for Policy Studies, a private Washington-based research organization, the U.S. has about...
...Washington's most persistent fears is that a determined terrorist group might succeed in stealing plutonium and bomb components. A congressional subcommittee on energy disclosed in 1982 that the guard force at one of the country's weapons plants failed to respond to a mock raid on a plutonium vault until 16 minutes after the "attackers" had left...
...Egyptian POWs after the Six-Day War in exchange for eleven Israelis, and in November 1983 had traded 4,500 Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners for six of its own. The problem this time was that the freed Arabs included 167 prisoners who had been convicted of involvement in terrorist acts in which Israelis had been killed. Furthermore, almost half of those released were being permitted to return to their homes in Israel or the occupied territories. Among those released was Ahmed Zmurid, who had been serving a life sentence for his participation in a 1968 car bombing in Jerusalem...
...terrorists had previously threatened to execute their captives but had not explicitly linked the hostages' fate with that of the prisoners in Kuwait. The same group is believed to have hijacked a Kuwaiti airliner last December and killed two Americans aboard in a futile effort to win freedom for their terrorist brothers. In its message to the hostages' families last week, Islamic Jihad declared, "For the last time, we wish to stress that all contact with your relatives will be cut off and the consequences will be catastrophic if you do not act seriously and force your governments to intervene...