The highest risk: a nuclear attack on the U.S.

More UNPROTECTED BEYOND BELIEF.  AT NUCLEAR PLANTS: Guards, owners and regulators all snooze, leaving plants vulnerable. USA TODAY, 10.11.07, 10A.

This March, an anonymous whistle-blower sent a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, warning that guards at the Peach Bottom nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania were routinely sleeping on the job. The letter writer said he was writing on behalf of other guards who were tired of covering up for their colleagues. He begged the NRC to do something and even suggested five ways to catch the sleepers, who are supposed to be on constant alert to repel terrorist attacks.

For months, nothing happened. Then a frustrated guard surreptitiously videotaped several dozing colleagues and gave the tape to WCBS-TV in New York City, which aired it late last month. With that, all hell broke loose. - - - -  For the entire story, click here.

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PRESIDENT BUSH AND SENATOR KERRY AGREED that a nuclear terrorism attack on the US is the single-most serious threat to America. Ref.: Presidential debate, Jim Lehrer, moderator.

NEWS ALERT, April 7, MSNBC: Iodide pills – the RADIATION PILL – urged for homes. Spurred by concerns over NUCLEAR TERRORISM, the American Academy of Pediatrics urged households and schools to keep potassium iodide on hand.

A BIGGER PERIL: Dirty Bombs: LA Times, May 30, 2004. "More than 40 countries could supply materials for an atomic weapon." As stated in this and other newspaper editorials, a Harvard University study showed that not enough is being done to prevent terrorists from constructing a crude weapon with radioactive waste materials.

ANTICIPATING THE UNFATHOMABLE, U.S. News & World Report, June 7, 2004: Al Qaeda boasts that preparations for a U.S. (nuclear) attack are 90% complete. A senior counterterrorism agent warned: "We may be in for another spectacular."

ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN ASCROFT, June 2, 2004: credible intelligence from multiple sources pointing to an Al Qaeda attack IN COMING MONTHS.

A RINGING NUCLEAR ALARM, LA Times, May 2, 2004: The Energy Department displays overconfidence with its inadequate nuclear security measures at numerous nuclear laboratories.

ENERGY DEPARTMENT ANALYSTS had previously estimated that if well trained terrorists penetrated Livermore’s "Superblock" building ( - which contains weapons-grade radioactive materials - ) they could rapidly assemble and set off a nuclear device, leveling the surrounding city and killing tens of thousands.

RUSSIAN GENERAL ALEXANDER LEBED STUNNED THE WORLD IN 1997 when he suggested that nearly 100 "suitcase nuclear bombs" from the Soviet Union could not be accounted for. Suitcase nuclear devices weighed only around 100 pounds, but had the explosion effect of a regular atomic bomb (with yields of 95 to 1,000 tons of TNT, capable of destroying entire cities).

AL QAEDA WANTS TO NUKE A U.S. CITY, LA TIMES, 9. 19. 2004:
NEST – Nuclear Emergency Search Team – already exists. "NEST is a SWAT team of nuclear ninjas. When mobilized, members drop their daytime jobs as physicists, engineers and explosive experts to search for and dismantle weapons before they explode into mushroom clouds." There was actually a real search alert in New York when, according to an FBI agent, Al Qaeda had gotten hold of a nuclear weapon produced by the former Soviet Union and supposedly had successfully smuggled it into the city. Under a cloak of secrecy NEST began a hunt for the 10-kiloton bomb whose Hiroshima-sized blast could have obliterated Manhattan. Nothing was found.

Potassium Iodide Tablets, when taken in the correct amount at time of a nuclear emergency, will saturate the thyroid, thus protecting it from taking up more radioactive iodine and therefore preventing death from radiation-induced cancer.

THE EXPERTS, INCLUDING GEORGE BUSH AND JOHN KERRY, AGREE - - "that the spread of nuclear fissile material, equipment and know-how is their top national security priority. And America’s No. 1 nightmare is that proliferation may yield a nuclear device detonated by terrorists in a U.S. city." " - - more than 600 tons of enriched uranium and plutonium in Russia, which could fall prey to terrorists or unscrupulous middlemen. " Ref.: NEWSWEEK, Oct. 11, 2004, p. 34-35."