Originally Posted by bocastephen
A few weeks ago, Primetime did an expose on how easy it was for 'students' to get access to the various nuclear facilities housed at many of our nation's colleges and universities.
One of my professors in our international security program was talking about this not too long ago - they had gone to visit the nuclear reactor at a school around here and found that it was completely unguarded, except for maybe a night watchman who'd go on a tour every now and then.
Then there is the Soviet Union which produced 120-some
portable nuclear bombs (these are the "suitcase" type). It's been able to account for 40-some of them.
There's enough loose fissile material out there to make 120,000 nuclear weapons. The cost of a nuclear attack on even a smaller sized US city is estimated to be at least $1 trillion.
But rather than work on those hard and more serious problems, let's spend our time and money attacking the privacy, rights, liberty and freedom of Americans.