What We Should Know

Over the past few days I have read some very interesting articles about the threat we have to terrorism. According to one article I read, on an average day, over 21,000 pounds of cocaine, heroin, and other drugs are smuggled into this country via ground shipping. If this is true, I would not be hard to smuggle a football size nuclear bomb into this country would it? Although you might be thinking "were are terrorists going to get enough enriched uranium to even start making a nuclear bomb?". Russia. North Korea, Iran. As of 1993 there was enough uranium in a Soviet warehouse outside Moscow to make 20 Nuclear bombs. In 2002 another team of scientists found enough to make 3 Nuces outside Belgrade. The Soviet Union Deployed about 22,000 nuclear weapons in its life. They have not found many of those weapons. Scared yet?

Lets talk Bio-Chem weapons for a short time. In a government simulated disaster, over one million Americans from 25 different states could be killed if a small amount of Smallpox was released in an Oklahoma shopping center. All of this would have taken place in three weeks. 

The Question we should all be asking is "Are we doing what it takes to combat this kind of an attack?"