Nuclear Strikes

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As a matter of fact,
the Russians say someone stole a bomb simulator, which will explode and make
mushroom cloud but has no nuclear component.(Wilkie) People know that despite
efforts to keep control on the old Soviet stockpile and waste, terrorists are
getting the plutonium and uranium needed to make nuclear weapons to kill masses
of people. This is kind of the history of the nuclear & atomic bomb: (all from
Williams) The first atomic bomb was thought up by Albert
Einstein in the late 30's. In 1942 Enrico Fermi brought about first nuclear
reaction with isotope Uranium 235. From this the Manhattan Project was brought
about and took place in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Then July 16, 1945 near
Alamogordo, New Mexico world's first atomic bomb was set off. Three weeks later
on August 6, 1945 "Little Boy" hit Hiroshima and had the force of 26 million
pounds of TNT. Next on August 9, 1945 "Fat Man" missed it's mark but still
devastated Nagasaki causing an unconditional surrender by ...

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out. What is
everyone going to do the next morning after a nuclear terrorist attack.

The four new formed nations of Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Russia
all have nuclear missiles. Although Ukraine and Belarus say they want no part of
them it is not known their real stance.(www.pbs.org) If they don't want them
then where will they go. They will probably send them to third world nations or
terrorist with a lot of money, because they are so poor. One Russian political
columnist Vladlen Sirotikin said, "give me a million bucks, and I'll have a
nuclear tipped missile bought or stolen and delivered anyplace you want." The
Pakistani Interior Minister General N. Babar admits his government ...

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