IP: Mobile teams on hunt for atomic threats

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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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."


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