Combating Terrorism: Preventing Nuclear Terrorism : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session, September 24, 2002U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003 - 120 páginas |
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Página 53 - Nuclear Power Plants and Their Fuel as Terrorist Targets," Science, September 20, 2002) - but the National Research Council report was much less sanguine, warning that "studies suggest that a terrorist attack on an NPP could have potentially severe consequences if the attack were large enough. The severity is highly dependent on the specific design configuration of the NPP including details such as the location of specific safety equipment." (Making the Nation Safer, op. cit.). Moreover, the performance...
Página 61 - The psychological impact of detonating a "dirty bomb" admittedly would be considerable. Yet fission weapons have vastly greater destructive power. Terrorists efforts to RDDs should not be ruled out but neither should the ease of doing so be exaggerated. So far, there is little indication that al Qaeda's efforts to acquire ingredients of either a nuclear bomb or radiological device were successful. In the wake of successive US military operations in Afghanistan, more than 110 government buildings,...
Página 3 - Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Christopher Shays (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives Shays, Kucinich, Schakowsky and Tierney.
Página 59 - part of a 2 year quest for his own tactical nuclear weapon." If such an attempt was in fact made, the prevailing pattern of profit-motivated scams in the nuclear black market suggests that the broker would have taken the money and never delivered the weapon. Reference also can be made to a lurid story appearing in the Paris-based Arabic newspaper, Al-Watan al Arabi, in November 1998 asserting that bin Laden 's emissaries concluded a deal with members of the "Chechen mafia...
Página 39 - Because of disputes between the US Department of Defense and the Russian Ministry of Defense...
Página 65 - ... mitigating the consequences of nuclear attacks."8 An issue for Congress and for the US intelligence community itself is how an enhanced collaboration effort in the FSU would be organized and implemented. A vehicle for advancing such sharing might be the newly-formed US -Russian Working Group on Terrorism, which recently issued a statement stressing the importance of cooperation against "threats posed by nuclear, biological, and chemical 8 Siegfried Hecker testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations...
Página 60 - Even if al Qaeda were successful in obtaining nuclear materials or a weapon, major obstacles would remain. In the case of a finished weapon, the problem would be to operate or bypass its multiple arming and fail-safe codes (though how elaborate these are would depend on the type and origin of the weapon).
Página 70 - Statement of Rose Gottemoeller Senior Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Before the House Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations Committee on Government Reform September 24, 2002 Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee: Thank you for the chance to testify before you today on the critical question of whether the United States is doing enough to prevent nuclear terrorism. To begin, I would like to express my appreciation, Mr. Chairman,...
Página 71 - William J. Broad, Stephen Engelberg and James Glanz, "Assessing Risks, Chemical, Biological, Even Nuclear," New York Times, November 1, 2001.