Sunday, February 10, 2008

Nuclear Watchdog Warns Of 'Disarray' -- Biggest Threat Is Extremist Groups, Not Iran, He Says

From The San Francisco Chronicle:

The United Nations' chief nuclear watchdog provided a singularly bleak vision of a world "in disarray" Saturday, warning that the most imminent threat is not a new nation joining the nuclear club but deadly material falling into the hands of extremists.

The specter of nuclear terrorism is not a new theme for International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei, who has been managing the crisis over Iran's nuclear program for the past six years, but his language was particularly gloomy at a conference of international leaders on security in Munich.

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My Comment: Unfortunately, a number of terrorist organizations have direct ties to governments and their officials. If a country decides to produce nuclear material, and that nuclear material is found after an explosion in a city like New York .... well .... accountability has to stop somewhere. To blame terrorists is one thing ..... but if one cannot keep the nuclear material that one is willing to produce under lock and key .... if that material is used then the blame will rest at the producers door.

Nuclear bombs do not kill people .... it is the people who produce and use them that do.

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