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Tuesday, June 28, 2005
At Least a Little Disconcerting
The AP's Jeffrey McMurray passes on some information from a former Senator that's at least a little disconcerting.
The government is losing the battle to keep the world's most dangerous weapons away from the world's most dangerous terrorists, largely because of a failure to monitor nuclear materials at the source, former Sen. Sam Nunn said Monday.And are these nuclear weapons coming from Iraq? Syria? ...?
"We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response," said Nunn, a former Armed Services chairman who now leads the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a group that promotes nonproliferation issues.
Part of the difficulty, Nunn said, is the effort requires broad international support — particularly from Russia, where hundreds of tons of loose nuclear material reportedly sit unprotected. [emphasis added]Does this mean it's time to spend the money Nunn and Sen. Dick Lugar originally requested to protect these "loose nukes"?
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