Experts say US complacent on nuclear terror threat

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Bush administration and the U.S. Congress are showing signs of complacency about the threat of a terrorist nuclear attack that could cripple a major city and shatter the economy, nuclear security experts said on Monday.

At a public forum sponsored by the former Sept. 11 commission, the experts said the government must do more to secure bomb-making materials worldwide, prevent proliferation, and promote international cooperation on security.

"We said on the 9/11 commission that there needed to be maximum effort and a sense of urgency. The sense of urgency is more a mood of complacency today," said former commissioner Timothy Roemer, a former Democratic congressman from Indiana.

"Rather than a brisk pace of activity, we are more seeing a business-as-usual approach," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050627/pl_nm/security_nuclear_dc

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1. urgency?

What's the diff? Sacrificing a major US City to noo-cue-lur terrorists may be just the boost our War President needs to get his poll numbers up. After losing said major city, Bush could heroically save us from the terr-rists.

He wins either way!

Uhh, actually, he only wins if a major USA city gets nuked, doesn't he?

I hope I'll be OK, considering I'm 90 minutes from New York City or Boston. Hartford is too small to be a terr-rist target, right?

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[90-percent]

2. I have a solution

I should put a call in to Porter Goss and advise him to phone me personally if "the system is blinking red".

I'll go take a 3 month leave of absense in North Dakota or something!

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