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nuclear strike on US targets within a decade". Similar judgements are commonly expressed by prominent strategic

 

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analysts. In his book Nuclear Terrorism, the Harvard international relations specialist Graham Allison reports the

 

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"consensus in the national security community" (of which he has been a part) that a "dirty bomb" attack is

 

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"inevitable", and an attack with a nuclear weapon highly likely, if fissionable materials - the essential ingredient - are

 

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not retrieved and secured.

 

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Allison reviews the partial success of efforts to do so since the early 1990s, under the initiatives of Senator Sam Nunn

 

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and Senator Richard Lugar, and the setback to these programmes from the first days of the Bush administration,

 

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paralysed by what Senator Joseph Biden called "ideological idiocy".

 

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The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to

 

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driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

 

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The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

 

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A high-level review of the "war on terror" two years after the invasion "focused on how to deal with the rise of a new

 

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generation of terrorists, schooled in Iraq over the past couple of years", Susan B Glasser reported in The Washington Post.

 

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"Top government officials are increasingly turning their attention to anticipate what one called 'the bleed out' of

 

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hundreds or thousands of Iraq-trained jihadists back to their home countries throughout the Middle East and

 

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Western Europe. 'It's a new piece of a new equation,' a former senior Bush administration official said. 'If you don't

 

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know who they are in Iraq, how are you going to locate them in Istanbul or London?'"

 

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Peter Bergen, a US terrorism specialist, says in The Boston Globe that "the President is right that Iraq is a main front

 

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in the war on terrorism, but this is a front we created".

 

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Shortly after the London bombing, Chatham House, Britain's premier foreign affairs institution, released a study

 

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drawing the obvious conclusion - denied with outrage by the Government - that "the UK is at particular risk because

 

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it is the closest ally of the United States, has deployed armed forces in the military campaigns to topple the Taliban

 

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regime in Afghanistan and in Iraq ... [and is] a pillion passenger" of American policy, sitting behind the driver of the motorcycle.

 

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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to

 

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contemplate with equanimity. While speculation is pointless, reaction to the threat of another Hiroshima is definitely not.

 

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On the contrary, it is urgent, particularly in the United States, because of Washington's primary role in accelerating

 

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the race to destruction by extending its historically unique military dominance, and in the UK, which goes along with it as its closest ally.

 

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I've seen the post whores come and go.. This one will be gone in a couple of months.. David is still the man

ouch you were wrong on this one baby

 

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Valuev vs. Klitschko: Could This Be The Most Popular Fight In The Division?

 

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With Nicolay Valuev???s recent disputed majority decision win