Two new reports on global security conclude with a growing risk for nuclear terrorism Reuters report today.<\/p>\n
The EastWest Institute and Chatham House, the two think-tanks behind the reports, cite that more states are pursuing their own nuclear ambitions and that the materials and engineering effort for a bomb \u201chave all become commodities, more or less available to those determined enough to acquire them\u201d. <\/p>\n
The vulnerability of nuclear power plants are mentioned. This is highly relevant considering all the new power plants under planning or construction. Read about the planned terrorist attack on a nuclear power plant in Australia, \u201cAustralia nuclear plant plot trial opens in Paris\u201d<\/A>, Reuters.<\/p>\n But most suprisingly:<\/p>\n Ken Berry, author of the EastWest Institute report, said the rise of environmental militants would bring \u201can even bigger prospect that scientific personnel from the richest countries will aid eco-terrorist use of nuclear weapons or materials\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This reminds me of Pentti Linkola<\/A>, Finnish eco-philosopher and by many considered an eco-fascist. In a Wall Street Journal interview he expresses the view that World War III would be: \u201ca happy occasion for the planet.\u2026 If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating, if it meant millions of people would die.\u201d <\/p>\n Source: Reuters<\/A>.<\/p>\n Read the reports; \u201cPreventing Nuclear Terrorism\u201d<\/A> from EastWest Institute and The CBRN System: Assessing the threat of terrorist use of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons in the UK<\/A> from Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two new reports on global security conclude with a growing risk for nuclear terrorism Reuters report today. The EastWest Institute and Chatham House, the two think-tanks behind the reports, cite that more states are pursuing their own nuclear ambitions and that the materials and engineering effort for a bomb \u201chave all become commodities, more or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}