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medical facilities are involved in the exercise, along with agents of the

Federal Security Service and other federal forces. When negotiations

fail, the command team decides to take the plant by force. A masked SWAT

team is assembled, storms the reactor building, and is able to stop the role

playing terrorists. The event was videotaped and made into a public relations

video that the FSB has used to successfully lobby for the creation of a new

Anti Terrorist Task Force. And on an ironic note, this anti terrorist exercise

would have been declared a complete success if only it didn t happen the

very same day Chechen separatists had taken hostage a hospital full of people

in the city of Budyonnovsk, Russia. Let s hope these attempts work so

nuclear terrorists won t get the materials or be able to use them.(PBS)

So in conclusion terrorists are able to get the materials required to

make a nuclear weapon or contaminate an area with nuclear waste. A

government official from Pakistan raises a good question when said, “This

material is supposed to be strictly controlled, and if the Russian Mafia or

whoever else is smuggling it out then it is very serious. Many of the things

hawked out are radioactive There is potential for a terrorist group buying

up bits and pieces”. There is growing fear that sooner or later the Irish

Republican Army, or another extremist group could explode a bomb. So

if they are getting it from Russia why isn t there any extra international

prevention in the former Soviet Union? Weapons are being dismantled at an

alarming rate. It s good thing to, because finding a needle in haystack is

easier than finding a bomb in an international city.(Waller 17) There is three

main ways they would destroy a terrorists bomb: 1. Use conventional weapons

to blow up the bomb without the nuclear aspect going off. 2. A 30 millimeter cannon

blow a nuke to pieces without an explosion. And 3. Pour liquid nitrogen over

the bomb to freeze it s electronics.(Waller)

There is obviously a higher risk for a strike now because so many

people have their hands on the buttons with 15 nations and who knows

who else might have the button to kill millions. So despite attempts to keep

control on nuclear material terrorists and third world countries are getting

their hands on the material to kill large masses of people. Key players in

trying to stop this is usually the United Nations or leaders (i.e. Reagan &

Gorbachev). Looking into the future, it will be a time of either great

destruction in the world or great reduction of nuclear based uses.

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