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Nukes and al-Qaida: A Reminder

Arnaud de Borchgrave's commentary in the Washington Times is worth your attention. He reminds us of what is at stake and al-Qaida's actual long-term plan.

Al Qaeda's nuclear option

[...] Mr. Nunn, chairman of the board of trustees at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says we appear to have forgotten the "devastating, world-changing impact of a nuclear [terrorist] attack. "If a 10-kiloton nuclear device goes off in Midtown Manhattan on a typical work day, it could kill more than half a million people," he explains. Ten kiloton is a plausible yield "for a crude terrorist bomb," according to Mr. Nunn.

Hauling that volume of explosives would require a freight train 100 cars long. As a nuclear bomb, it could easily fit on the back of a pickup truck.