Combating Terrorism: Preventing Nuclear Terrorism : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session, September 24, 2002U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003 - 120 pages |
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Page 1 - Su, minority professional staff member; and Jean Gosa, minority assistant clerk. Mr. SHAYS. A quorum being present, the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations hearing entitled, 'The UN Oil-for-Food Program: The Inevitable Failure of UN Sanctions
Page 1 - Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Christopher Shays (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives Shays, Kucinich, Schakowsky and Tierney.
Page 102 - ... would have a good chance of setting off a high-yield explosion simply by dropping one half of the material onto the other half. Most people seem unaware that if separated U-235 is at hand it's a trivial job to set off a nuclear explosion... [E]ven a high school kid could make a bomb in short order.
Page 50 - Matthew Bunn, The Next Wave: Urgently Needed New Steps to Control Warheads and Fissile Material, (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Harvard University Managing the Atom Project April 2000) informally as the "Megatons to Megawatts...
Page 102 - With modern weapons-grade uranium, the background neutron rate is so low that terrorists, if they have such material, would have a good chance of setting off a high-yield explosion simply by dropping one half of the material onto the other half.
Page 37 - Russian nuclear warhead storage sites that is sitting in warehouses uninstalled because disagreements between the US Department of Defense and the Russian Ministry of Defense...
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