
Countdown To Zero
I dont believe it.
It makes no sense.
"There is something so strange."
"Perhaps you could suggest some
fantastic explanation. "
"Could'nt it be this sort of thing"
"Yes," she said,
"That is what I mean."
This was the first explanation
of the splitting the atom.
Robert Oppenheimer said:
"Impossible."
But within 15 minutes he decided
it was real.
That you could
generate power
and make bombs.
Within one week, on
Oppenheimer's black board
There was a drawing of
the bomb.
Enrico Fermi stood
in his office
and looked out of Manhattan.
He kept his hand to
the size of a tennis balll.
"A little bomb like that" He said
"And it would all disappear."
Countdown To Zero
There is no doubt in my mind
if the terrorists had
acquired a nuclear weapon,
They would not have hasitated to use it.
Could They Ever Get One?
Al-Qaida is determined
and use them if they get them.
In the early 90's
they tried to buy highly
enriched uranium in Sudan
They got scammed
Just prior to the
we do know that Osama bin Laden and
his lieutinent Zawahiri
sat down with two
Pakistani nuclear scientists
and discussed
nuclear weapons.
in the Tokyo subway
the Japanese cult
Aum Shinrikyo
attempted to acquire a
nuclear bomb in Russia.
They bought a sheet
farm in Australia
to mine uranium to
build their own bomb.
The objective of Al-Qaeda is:
is to kill 4 million Americans
including two million children
This is in his calculations,
the..which is required to
balance the scales of justice.
He takes
various incidents
from Shatila to
the war in Iraq,
and counts up the
bodycount and says
"Thats how many people
we owe:
4 million. "You are not going to get
hijacking airplanes and
crashing them into buildings.
Actually, I am not that worried
about nuclear weapons.
Its not one of my main worries.
nuclear weapons?
There are all concerned
nuclear war?
Thats a stupid answer,
no
I don't know. Its never been something
that I actually had to think
in my everyday life.
It might get on your conscience
and maybe then disappears
I do not think anybody is going
to use in this day and age
it is ridiculous to even think about it.
What can you do?
Nothing.
At the end of the day a small button
and there is going to be a big mess at the end of that
Somebody is going to make a mistake one day
and we are all going to suffer for it.
There are three ways to
acquire a nuclear weapon:
You could buy a bomb
Of all the things I've learned after 9/11,
about terrorism iintent
the most startling discovery
for me personally
was realising they were trying to
build a bomb.
The hardest part of
making a nuclear bomb
is getting the material,
highly enriched uranium
or plutonium.
Many countries have
these materials,
and often they are poorly guarded
But if I were
a terrorist
intending to build
a nuclear bomb,
and i wanted to blow up
a major city
I would look to the countries of
There have been many cases
involving the theft
of highly enriched
uranium or plutonium.
And every time there has been a black market ceasure
andthey were able to
track to its source
It came from Russia.
There was a case at a Russian naval base
in the early 1990s.
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