Senate Examining Intelligence on Nuclear Terror

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By David Morgan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate has begun taking a harder look at U.S. intelligence on nuclear threats facing the United States, including revelations of missing nuclear materials in Russia, congressional officials said on Friday.

The Republican-led Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which held a closed-door hearing on nuclear issues earlier this month, has come to view nuclear proliferation as a threat that overshadows other dangers posed by terrorist groups.

"We're going to be following it very, very closely," said Sen. John Rockefeller of West Virginia, ranking Democrat on the Senate oversight panel.

He said the nuclear threat against the United States was posed "not just from North Korea, but most dangerously from unaccounted for weapons that could be black-marketed to terrorists." <snip>

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=7678752

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1. shouldn't they have been investigating the missing russian nuclear

stuff like months and months ago?

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2. W&co shouldn't have dropped the ball on Nunn-Lugar during Term I.

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3. sorry....I've only been paying attention to politics

since July. What did the Nunn-Lugar bill(?) say?

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4. Nunn-Lugar is a program for controlling former soviet nukes.