Word of the October alert was just the latest sign of the concerns U.S. officials have about the possibility al Qaeda or another terrorist network might gain access to a nuclear device -- either a nuclear weapon or a so-called "dirty bomb, " one that contains radioactive material spread by detonating a conventional explosive.
And because of technology today, if an organization like that got a weapon of mass destruction on its hands -- a nuclear or a chemical or a biological weapon -- and they used it in a city, whether it's in Shanghai or New York, just a few individuals could potentially kill tens of thousands of people, maybe hundreds of thousands.
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While no gun was reportedly recovered, an unnamed security source told Interfax the killer appears to have used a Val assault rifle fitted with a silencer - a weapon favoured by Russian special forces.
Meanwhile documents turned up that showed design work to fit a nuclear-weapon-sized object into the nose-cone of a Shahab missile but Iran dismissed them as forgeries.
The media were not invited as Kelly and Giffords met privately with parents whose children had been shot to death by a 20-year-old armed a military-style weapon, as well as two handguns.
In so doing, it has revealed serious cracks in its so-called religious underpinnings as it continues its drive to achieve a nuclear-weapon capability.
Fears of a German invasion of New York were improbable, if not utterly fantastic, but in a pre-nuclear weapon, pre-smart weapon age, the size of a navy really mattered.
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But Wilson still considers their first test of a partially-downloadable weapon a successful learning experience.
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The National Ignition Facility was conceived in response to a nuclear-weapon test ban signed by George H.
With a successful test, Pyongyang could in effect proclaim itself invulnerable, above the law, a nuclear-weapon state immune from international action.
Beyond that, Obama told lawmakers that he wanted them to swiftly pass a assault-weapon ban and limit magazines to 10 bullets.
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We need to provide a menu of options that can support the green movement as well as prevent Iran from achieving a nuclear-weapon capability.
Since America and Japan are bound to press for sanctions in the event of a nuclear-weapon test, Mr Kim may be gambling that, rather than uniting his neighbours against him, detonating a bomb would instead blow them and America apart again.
What we know, and I have said and many others have said, is that we have eyes into the program, we are aware of developments, and we would know if there were a so-called breakout move by Iran toward the building of a nuclear weapon -- and that has not happened.
Like Harmison, Johnson sometimes gives the impression that his best spells almost happen by happy accident, his action less well-oiled machine than a randomly-firing weapon.
This "recipe" for the preparation of anthrax as a weapon - using silica to perform a similar function as Bentonite - is a technique associated with US experiments in the 1960s with anthrax as a weapon.
Grumberg was charged with four counts of third degree criminal sale of a firearm, second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and other gun-related charges.
Espinoza was released from jail -- where he was held on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon -- one day before the incident.
California Rep. Mike Thompson told CNN on Tuesday that a ban on high-capacity magazines could garner Republican support, but a full-scale assault weapon ban would be hard to get passed in the GOP-controlled House.
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Would you hand a .50-caliber sharpshooter rifle, a weapon that can take down a low-flying commercial airliner, to a total stranger?
The National Shooting Sports Foundation and other gun enthusiasts complain that what ultimately separated an "assault weapon" from a "non-assault weapon" under the 1994 law was cosmetic.
When two more soldiers were shot dead on March 15 in Montauban, north of Toulouse again by a gunman with a .45-caliber weapon who police said escaped on a Yamaha TMAX the case was elevated to national priority, Mr. Longuet said.
An unknown assailant pulled out a semi-automatic weapon and started firing at the preacher.
Every such attempt is a one-shot weapon and the criminal hackers are determined to make most of it.
His point was that nobody needs a semi-automatic weapon to protect their home.
One owns a semi-automatic weapon almost exclusively to protect oneself should the U.S. government wage war on its citizens.
But Surayudh has a secret weapon - the country's first civilian defense minister, PM Chuan Leekpai himself ( see interview).
Professor CHRIS STONE (Harvard University): They're sometimes using a less-lethal weapon when they wouldn't have used any weapon at all.
The US and its allies suspect Iran of secretly trying to build a nuclear weapon - something Tehran strongly denies.
But with federal prosecutors now on the case, Mulqueen was indicted only on a weapon-possession charge, the Rockland County prosecutors said.
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