Last Chance
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The only way to prevent nuclear terror is to stop nukes at the source.
Why have Bush, Putin and Republican lawmakers been so slow to react?
WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Jonathan Alter
Newsweek
Updated: 11:19 a.m. ET Oct. 17, 2005
Oct. 17, 2005 issue - Of all the varieties of incompetence in this, the
Age of Incompetence, the most deadly involves the potential of nuclear
terrorism. After years of foot dragging, Presidents Bush and Putin have
finally agreed at summit meetings this year that it is the single most
serious threat in the world today-far more likely than a nuclear
exchange by superpowers. And yet they and their governments are not
following through quickly enough to secure loose nukes at their source.
At the pace we're going, it will be 13 years-2018-before all of
them are recovered and deactivated, by which time even the most sober
analysts believe terrorists will likely have blown up and contaminated
some city forever.
Jonathan Alter
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