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That isn't some wild-eyed fantasy but what some experts fear is a realistic scenario. Many of the terrorists' tactics depicted here are taken from a Department of Energy (DOE) training video for guards at nuclear facilities. The control-room plot is based on the concerns of veterans from the nuclear industry. Physicist Kenneth Bergeron, who spent most of 25 years at Sandia National Laboratories researching nuclear-reactor safety, says plant operators focus security efforts on keeping bad guys out. They assume that no one with malicious intent will wind up at the controls and thus do not build...
...weapons detailed in the opening scenario of this story, but, says the Congressman, "if I were a terrorist, I'd feel more than free to use them." The agency doesn't require defenses against weapons that terrorists haven't regularly used, according to a senior nuclear-plant safety expert who has worked with the NRC and the nuclear industry for decades. "The NRC's assumption is that if it's not being used by the terrorists," he says, "it's not reasonable to assume it would suddenly start being used against nuclear power plants...
...Fertel. The electric industry's research institute concluded that probably only about 100 people would be killed in such an attack, he says. In any case, Fertel has told Congress, the chances of terrorists provoking such a disaster are "so incredibly low it is not credible." One expert who thinks saboteurs would have a difficult time provoking a meltdown is Georges Le Guelte, a former board member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, who advises on nuclear-security issues at the Paris-based Institute of International and Strategic Relations. "It would require a relatively large number of highly experienced experts...
...said the U.S. would apply principals consistent with the Geneva Conventions to "unlawful combatants," subject to military necessity, at Guantánamo and elsewhere. The Pentagon argues that al-Qahtani's treatment was always "humane." But the Geneva Conventions forbid any "outrage on personal dignity." Eric Freedman, a constitutional-law expert and consultant in some of the growing number of federal lawsuits challenging U.S. treatment of these detainees, says, "If the techniques described in this interrogation log are not outrages to personal dignity, then words have no meaning." Then again, in the war on terrorism, the personal dignity of a fanatic...
...Renaissance literature expert, Reeves might be an improbable figure to lead a broad-based human rights advocacy movement. And in recent months, Reeves has found even more unlikely allies in his quest: the three members of Harvard’s Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR...