CNN Front Page: "Survey: 'High risk' of WMD attack within decade"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

...with THIS accompanying photo:



U.S. survey finds more nations will acquire nuclear weapons

Wednesday, June 22, 2005; Posted: 4:50 a.m. EDT (08:50 GMT)

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The chance of an attack with a weapon of mass destruction somewhere in the world in the next 10 years runs as high as 70 percent, arms experts have predicted in a U.S. survey.

Most of the more than 80 experts surveyed in the report released on Tuesday believed one or two new countries will acquire nuclear weapons in the next five years, with two to five countries joining the nuclear club during the next decade.

The survey, commissioned by U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, also showed that four out of five people said their country was not spending enough on non-proliferation efforts. The most likely scenario for a nuclear attack would be for terrorists to use a weapon they made themselves with material acquired on the black market, the survey said.

"The results underscore the need to improve security around tactical nuclear weapons and nuclear material in Russia and expand our ability to detect transfer of weapons or materials from rogue states to terrorist organizations," said a summary of a report outlining the survey results.

[ET Awful]

1. Yup, somewhere in the world in the next 10 years, 70% probability

that some asshole who violates treaties to build new nuclear weapons as bunker buster type devices . . . on wait, that's the US.

[patdem]

2. That was exactly my thought, if the US is included probably 100%?

The US is the first country that will use a WMD (bunker buster-aka SMALL Nuclear weapons) to attack (somewhere in the world) Syria, Iran, Venezuela? Who knows?

[ET Awful]

3. Well, if you go on the premise, as many weapons experts do, that the

only true weapon of mass destruction is a nuclear weapon (this because other so-called WMD's are not effect unless used en masse, for instance, one chemical shell is not sufficient and will not disperse over a wide enough area to cause "mass destruction", "WMD" is a term invented to instill fear), then you also come to the realization that the only nation to use actual weapons of mass destruction is, indeed, the United States.

For instance:

"Chemical weapons expert Gert G. Harigel considers only nuclear weapons true weapons of mass destruction, because "only nuclear weapons are completely indiscriminate by their explosive power, heat radiation and radioactivity, and only they should therefore be called a weapon of mass destruction". He prefers to call chemical and biological weapons "weapons of terror" when aimed against civilians and "weapons of intimidation" for soldiers. Testimony of one such soldier expresses the same viewpoint (<12>" (http://www.sightm1911.com/lib/other/nbc.htm)).

An additional condition often implicitly applied to WMD is that the use of the weapons must be strategic. In other words, they would be designed to "have consequences far outweighing the size and effectiveness of the weapons themselves" (<13> (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7813-991589,00.html)).

from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_mass_destruction

[TreasonousBastard]

4. I agree with "somehwere in the world"....

what with all the fighting going on, but these warnings are usually meant to scare the crap out of us. It's not like the "experts" are quoted to warn us about a suitcase nuke at a Hindu temple in India.

Forgotten in these warnings is that he US has increased the chances by turning its back on nonproliferation work. What happened to those earlier efforts to help Russia and the old Soviet states to control their technology and materials?

[C_U_L8R]

5. BOO

Bush's numbers are in the toilet
and his regime is just trying to scare us.

Ignore.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Exactly what I thought when I saw the CNN page this morning. Time

to terrify the public into 'loving' their great, strong protector again.

[devinsgram]

7. I'm sorry, but I truly believe this and guess who get's the credit for it

* will one day be hated by every human who might possibly make it through this.