Nuke Terror Alert
While politicians and pundits push new nuclear power, an American government commission reports a frightening failure to contain nuclear weapons material. And terrorists in Australia were arrested last week, as they plotted to attack that country's only nuclear reactor.
Details released by the Australian prosecutor, in mid-November, reveal a concerted plan to attack the medical materials reactor on the outskirts of the country's capital, Sydney. In the largest ever terror sweep, police arrested at least a dozen Islamic activists, as they collected bomb materials, chemicals, and timing devices, to blow up the nuclear reactor.
An Algerian born Muslim cleric, known as Abu Bakr, has been calling for jihad martyrs, and demanding "maximum damage" in Australia, which has supported US troops in Iraq.
The Australian media has been pushing for more nuclear reactors, in a land brimming with potential solar energy. One pundit on ABC National radio argues the Australian outback should be the site to dump the world's nuclear waste. Now we see that nuclear means target, with a threat that might have irradiated the capital for thousands of years.
Back in America, the members of the 9/11 Commission warn that half of Russia's nuclear weapons stockpile is not yet secured, leaving bomb-grade material available to terrorists on the black market. The bipartisan group blames lack of political will, and bureaucratic in-fighting, for the "unacceptable" response to the threat of nuclear terrorism.
Thomas Kean, the Republican chair of the 9/11 Public Discourse Group said:
"We still do not have a maximum effort against the most urgent threat. The most striking thing to us is that the size of the problem still totally dwarfs the policy response." end quote.
So far, the former Soviet Union has dismantled about 51 percent of their warheads, under treaties with the U.S., and under the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. That's the good news. The bad news: after his agreement last February with Russian President Vladimir Putin, to complete an inventory and reduction - the Bush administration has let the program slide.
Kean adds, at the current rate... "it's going to take 14 long years to complete this job. Is there anybody, anywhere, who thinks that we really have 14 years?... We have no greater fear than a terrorist who is inside the United States with a nuclear weapon."
The 9/11 group concluded that Osama bid Laden's al-Quaida has been trying to obtain nuclear materials for at least 10 years. The group may have already succeeded, patiently developing their bomb, or bombs, while planning delivery and devastating attacks.
The commission also warned that 100 nuclear research facilities, in 40 countries, do not have even basic security. Each of the 100 sites contain enough material to make a nuclear weapon. The whole nuclear mess ticks like a time bomb, while big business and science pushes more nuclear power.
Only one nuclear bomb in the United States could end the Democracy, and send the world economy into a tail spin. Humanity is not ready for nuclear anything.
This report is from RAdio Ecoshock at www.ecoshock.org
Details released by the Australian prosecutor, in mid-November, reveal a concerted plan to attack the medical materials reactor on the outskirts of the country's capital, Sydney. In the largest ever terror sweep, police arrested at least a dozen Islamic activists, as they collected bomb materials, chemicals, and timing devices, to blow up the nuclear reactor.
An Algerian born Muslim cleric, known as Abu Bakr, has been calling for jihad martyrs, and demanding "maximum damage" in Australia, which has supported US troops in Iraq.
The Australian media has been pushing for more nuclear reactors, in a land brimming with potential solar energy. One pundit on ABC National radio argues the Australian outback should be the site to dump the world's nuclear waste. Now we see that nuclear means target, with a threat that might have irradiated the capital for thousands of years.
Back in America, the members of the 9/11 Commission warn that half of Russia's nuclear weapons stockpile is not yet secured, leaving bomb-grade material available to terrorists on the black market. The bipartisan group blames lack of political will, and bureaucratic in-fighting, for the "unacceptable" response to the threat of nuclear terrorism.
Thomas Kean, the Republican chair of the 9/11 Public Discourse Group said:
"We still do not have a maximum effort against the most urgent threat. The most striking thing to us is that the size of the problem still totally dwarfs the policy response." end quote.
So far, the former Soviet Union has dismantled about 51 percent of their warheads, under treaties with the U.S., and under the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. That's the good news. The bad news: after his agreement last February with Russian President Vladimir Putin, to complete an inventory and reduction - the Bush administration has let the program slide.
Kean adds, at the current rate... "it's going to take 14 long years to complete this job. Is there anybody, anywhere, who thinks that we really have 14 years?... We have no greater fear than a terrorist who is inside the United States with a nuclear weapon."
The 9/11 group concluded that Osama bid Laden's al-Quaida has been trying to obtain nuclear materials for at least 10 years. The group may have already succeeded, patiently developing their bomb, or bombs, while planning delivery and devastating attacks.
The commission also warned that 100 nuclear research facilities, in 40 countries, do not have even basic security. Each of the 100 sites contain enough material to make a nuclear weapon. The whole nuclear mess ticks like a time bomb, while big business and science pushes more nuclear power.
Only one nuclear bomb in the United States could end the Democracy, and send the world economy into a tail spin. Humanity is not ready for nuclear anything.
This report is from RAdio Ecoshock at www.ecoshock.org
posted by Alex Smith at
1:02 PM
2 Comments:
This report does not even mention all of the Soviet siutcase nukes(nuclear bombs small enough to fit into a large suitcase)that have turned up missing after the fall of the Soviet Union!!!
god help us all, that the way we die doesn't come from the highest bidder. and let god damn the seller of the suitcase nuke that kills innocent women and children, in usa,great brittian , russia or anywhere. terrorism is a scourge on all of humanity. religion has no bounds. as you see in iraq. muslim kills muslim. we are all vurnable ,may god help us all.
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