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IP: Mobile teams on hunt for atomic threats
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:10:08 +0900
------ Forwarded Message From: Jean Armour Polly <mom () netmom com> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 01:29:58 -0400 To: farber () cis upenn edu Subject: Mobile teams on hunt for atomic threats Dave- this 6-9-02 article from the Boston Globe is, er, disconcerting. Here is a sample "Another uncertainty, which no exercise could fully resolve, is whether NEST scientists can neutralize a terrorist bomb after they find it. According to Jeffrey T. Richelson, a senior fellow at the National Security Archive, a private Washington-based research center, weapon-lab scientists have several ways to perform this delicate task. They can detonate small explosives around the bomb. They can blast it into small pieces with a 30mm cannon. Or, before exploding it, they can build a huge nylon tent around the bomb, then pump in 30,000 cubic feet of thick foam to block the dispersal of radiation. NEST scientists built a nylon tent around the bomb at the end of the 1994 exercise, Mirage Gold, but they were denied permission to detonate it, partly because the FBI and FEMA disagreed over which agency had the authority to grant it." http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/160/nation/Mobile_teams_on_hunt_for_atomic _threats+.shtml also Interactive map of current status of Ground Zero area buildings (click on a building to see status) http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-groundzeromap0519.flash also check out the section on bin Laden in the below Library of Congress site, report from 1999-- THE SOCIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY OF TERRORISM: WHO BECOMES A TERRORIST AND WHY? Report Prepared under an Interagency Agreement by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress September 1999 http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Sociology-Psychology%20of%20Terrorism.htm -- Jean Armour Polly http://www.netmom.com/ "Search engines are science, but directories are art." ------ End of Forwarded Message
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