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May 6, 2004       Share:    

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What If? Europe Simulates Qaeda Nuclear Hit

(AP/Reuters/International Herald Tribune) - European officials have conducted a simulation showing how al-Qaeda could kill 40,000 people and plunge the continent into chaos if a crude nuclear device were detonated outside NATO headquarters in Brussels. "We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe," said former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn, who helped organize the exercise. "To win this race, we have to achieve cooperation on a scale we've never seen or attempted before." Nunn urged increased protection for weapons-grade uranium kept at research sites, which are often poorly guarded university facilities; accelerated destruction of tactical nuclear weapons by both the U.S. and Russia; enhanced international intelligence sharing; and more help to find new jobs for poorly paid Russian nuclear scientists.

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