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• W2010732406 abstract "In first nationally televised debate between President George Bush and Senator John Kerry in September 2004, moderator asked each candidate What is most serious to American national security? In rare agreement, Kerry and Bush both answered As president said: agree with my opponent that biggest facing country is weapons of mass destruction in hands of a terrorist network.In final weeks of presidential campaign, Vice President Dick Cheney made nuclear terrorism a centrepiece of his stump speech, arguing that the biggest we face now as a nation is possibility of terrorists ending up in middle of one of our cities with deadlier weapons than have ever been used against us... nuclear weapons able to threaten lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans. According to Cheney, ultimate threat. For us to have a strategy that's capable of defeating that threat, you've got to get your mind around that concept.'It is unlikely that candidates for party leaders vying for position of prime minister in Canada would give a similar answer about greatest to their country's national security. The purpose of this article, nevertheless, is to present evidence for conclusion that nuclear terrorism is a very serious to Canada, as well as to US and world. Moreover, Canada has an opportunity to play a special role in combating this threat.This argument will be developed in four parts. First, I ask whether answer given by Bush and Kerry to question about single greatest threat is correct.Second, what about Canada? Is nuclear terrorism a serious to Canada's national well-being? My answer is yes, indeed a double-threat. Directly, Montreal or Toronto or Vancouver could be target of a nuclear terrorist bomb. Indirectly, terrorists transport their nuclear bomb (or material from which they make a bomb) through Canada to an American city, economic consequences for Canada could be substantial.The good news about issue of nuclear terrorism, as I claim in third section, is that it is preventable, indeed, it is ultimate preventable catastrophe.2 Success in preventing nuclear terrorist attacks on our cities will require a global undertaking well beyond current actions of key governments, an undertaking in which US and Canada share deep common interests.In fourth part, I observe that, in fact, Canadian government has recognized of nuclear terrorism and has taken a leadership role in addressing it. Canada, however, cannot remain on sidelines. Canada has experience and standing it takes to play a much more significant leadership role in defeating this spectre.THE SINGLE GREATEST THREATIn December 2004, UN high-level panel on threats, challenges, and change issued its report on threats to global community. Among a dozen global ills from AIDS and poverty to civil war and environmental degradation, panel gave pride of place to proliferation of nuclear weapons and specific of nuclear terrorism. In sober but stark terms it warned that a continuation of current trends risks a cascade of proliferation.3Al Qaeda remains a formidable enemy with clear nuclear ambitions. The former head of CIA's bin Laden task force, Michael Scheuer, provides instructive details about Osama bin Laderis success in acquiring a fatwa from a Saudi cleric that provided a religious justification to use nuclear weapons. Titled A treatise on legal status of using weapons of mass destruction against infidels, and issued in May 2003, fatwa asserts that if a bomb that killed 10 million of them and burned as much of their land as they have burned Muslims' land were dropped on them, it would be permissible.4 The 9/11 commission report found that al Qaeda has tried to acquire or make weapons of mass destruction for at least ten years. …" @default.
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• W2010732406 title "Is Nuclear Terrorism a Threat to Canada's National Security?" @default.
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