In December 1998, Osama bin Laden stated that is was the religious duty of Muslims to acquire weapons of mass destruction (WMD). In addition, al Qaeda spokesman Suleiman abu Ghaith stated: "We have the right to kill four million Americans - two million of them children - and to exile twice as many and injure and cripple hundreds of thousands."1 Given al Qaeda's determination to acquire and use weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, against Americans, coupled with poorly secured nuclear weapons, material and expertise from the former Soviet Union, Americans need to prepare for the possibility of a nuclear terrorist attack against our homeland.
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