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Experts to Warn U.S. Senate of Threat of Calamitous Nuclear Terrorism

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: Crime and Justice News, April 2, 2008.

"The government must act to reduce the threat of nuclear terrorism in a major U.S. city, senior government officials and top terrorism experts are scheduled to tell the Senate on Wednesday. Testifying as part of a months-long Senate investigation into the government's ability to prevent a nuclear attack, the experts will paint a chilling picture of a post-nuclear America: hundreds of thousands of dead, $1 trillion in damage, and panic nationwide, reports USA Today."

" 'The prospect of terrorists detonating a nuclear device on American soil sometime within the next quarter- century is real and growing,' according to prepared testimony from Gary Anthony Ackerman, research director of the Homeland Security Department-funded National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. 'Such a calamitous attack would represent a game-changing event far exceeding the impact of 9/11 on the nation.' A Department of Energy official outlined several steps the government has taken to mitigate the threat, including working with other governments to try to eliminate and secure nuclear stockpiles."

USA Today

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on April 02, 2008 (boomark / email).