Osama's Wet Dream
Feb 18, 2005
At a conference on the future of al Qaeda sponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratory last month, I posed a dark question to 60 or so nuclear weapons scientists and specialists on terrorism and radical Islam: How many of them believed that the probability of a nuclear fission bomb attack on U.S. soil during the next several decades was negligible -- say, less than 5 percent?
At issue was the Big One -- a Hiroshima-or-larger explosion that could claim hundreds of thousands of American lives, as opposed to an easier-to-mount but less lethal radiological attack. Amid somber silence, three or four meek, iconoclastic hands went up.
That's a scary article because it goes on to make a good case for deterence not having any effect on Al Qaeda inspired terrorists. They're quite willing to die to meet their 72 virgins. The US should arrange the meeting whenever they find terrorists like that.
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