{"id":668,"date":"2004-12-29T04:54:18","date_gmt":"2004-12-29T04:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:56","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:56","slug":"wapo_on_nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"WaPo on Nukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A32285-2004Dec28.html\" target=\"browser\">first part of the Washington Post&#8217;s series on the challenges terrorists face in acquiring nuclear weapons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>About This Series<\/p>\n<p>\nThe three articles beginning today are the culmination of a year-long effort to examine the challenges the United States faces more than three years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Previous articles have ranged from the threat posed by conventional truck bombs to the difficulty of tracking terrorist fundraising. The articles starting today take a detailed look at terrorists&#8217; ability to acquire and use weapons of mass destruction &#8212; nuclear, biological and chemical.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><i>While the dangers certainly are real, there is considerable disagreement among security experts about the probabilities for &#8220;catastrophic terrorism.&#8221; In the case of nuclear and biological weapons, the subjects of articles today and tomorrow, there are technical and scientific hurdles that have proved daunting, even for nations with sizable budgets and state-of-the-art facilities. Chemical weapons, which will be explored in an article Friday, would be somewhat easier to devise or obtain, but also far less likely to yield huge numbers of casualties. A radiological device would have similar limitations for terrorists.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the first part of the Washington Post&#8217;s series on the challenges terrorists face in acquiring nuclear weapons. About This Series The three articles beginning today are the culmination of a year-long effort to examine the challenges the United States faces more than three years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Previous articles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}