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Even in times of peace, the Navy has been criticized for pollution and the negative health effects of expended ammunition and uranium...
...thank you for giving me so many hints on how to make attempts at mass destruction more effective [TERRORISM, Oct. 29]. In a single short article--"Can a Nuke Really Fit into a Suitcase?"--you gave information on the availability of a suitcase nuke, what type of plutonium and uranium one would need to make one, and, totally unbelievable, which area of a nuclear power reactor should be attacked to incur the highest number of casualties. And you are not the only one. All over the press and the Internet, people are publishing all the material they can get their...
...bridges but also had a permit to import explosives for construction use. The same witness said that Salim took him on a trip to a chemical-warfare-training facility in Sudan and was a critical link in the negotiations for an attempted $1.5 million purchase of South African uranium...
...made any number of attempts to get more. As early as the mid-1990s, intelligence sources tell TIME, bin Laden's agents began cruising the black markets of Europe and Asia looking for pirated Russian warheads. Al-Qaeda also made it known that loose components such as enriched uranium would do too. Relatively new to the free-for-all thieving of the post-Soviet republics, bin Laden was fleeced at least twice, getting fooled by black marketeers who tried to sell him low-grade, radioactive rubbish--in one instance claiming it was "red mercury," a fictional Russian weapon...
...make them. And in a frightening study done by the Nuclear Control Institute, a nonproliferation group in Washington, a panel of nuclear-explosives experts concluded that a group of dedicated terrorists without nuclear backgrounds could assemble a bomb if it had the right materials (such as plutonium 239, uranium 235, plutonium oxide and uranium oxide). It would take about a year to complete the job. "There's little question that the only remaining obstacle is the acquisition of the material," says Paul Leventhal, the institute's president. Less than 110 kg of active ingredients could yield 10 kilotons of explosive...