[lit-ideas] Re: Al Quaeda and Suitcase Nukes
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 02:57:23 -0500
Teemu: The Russian nuclear weapon accounting
standards given the severity of the matter did and
may still leave something to desire, but this has
been inflated out of proportion to them actually
having lost nukes for as such laudable political
goal of getting more funding to secure them.
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Has the United States ever accidentally lost a
nuclear weapon?
Yes. Experts estimate that at least 11 have been
lost. For example, in 1958 a damaged U.S. bomber
was ordered to drop a nuclear weapon into the
Atlantic before landing. It was never recovered
and rests somewhere off the coast of Savannah,
Georgia. (For more information, see the Center for
Defense Information,
http://www.cdi.org/Issues/NukeAccidents/accidents.htm)
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Has Russia ever accidentally lost a nuclear weapon?
Russia denies that any of its nuclear weapons have
gone missing although it admits some fissile
material has been lost or stolen. Moscow's
assurance that "all nuclear weapons are in place"
is wishful thinking since at least four nuclear
submarines with nuclear warheads sank and were
never recovered by the Soviet Union.
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Have terrorists ever stolen or built a nuclear weapon?
No, but they are trying to. In 1998, Osama bin
Laden issued a statement titled The Nuclear Bomb
of Islam, declaring, "It is the duty of Muslims to
prepare as much force as possible to terrorize the
enemies of God."
http://www.nuclearterror.org/faq.html#faq_30
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