Nuclear Terrorism and Countermeasures: Hearing Before the Military Research and Development Subcommittee of the Committee on National Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session : Hearings Held October 1 and 2, 1997, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998 - 297 pages |
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Page 252 - Potter is a professor and director of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS).
Page 4 - The important point is that crime, corruption, incompetence, and institutional disintegration are so advanced in Russia that the theft of nuclear weapons, unthinkable in the Soviet era of the cold war, seems entirely plausible in the Russia of today.
Page 9 - Made up of several components, NEST capabilities include search and identification of nuclear materials, diagnostics and assessment of suspected nuclear devices, and disablement and containment programs. NEST personnel and equipment are deployable at all times.
Page 229 - Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Health and Human Services, the...
Page 230 - States is to have any chance of stopping the detonation of a weapons of mass destruction on our soil, prevention and deterrence must start at the source — the weapons and material depots and research institutes of the former Soviet Union. Only by shoring up these first two lines of defense abroad can we hope to prepare successfully for the threat at home.
Page 24 - Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. We appreciate the opportunity to be here.
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Page 14 - I think this is something that we are going to have to look at.
Page 56 - I have said on numerous occasions, terrorists want a lot of people watching, not a lot of people dead.