Though they are .
not 100 percent certain of this. And now with the President talking about a future war in .
Iraq, could the Iraqi government sell their plutonium and uranium to terrorists .
orginazations? In October of 2001, Pakistan officials detained nuclear scientists .
involved with programs for the Taliban. One of them a high official for Pakistans nuclear .
weapons program, who the Government had granted access to classified information. .
Working with the Taliban and Terrorists, he could have given them the know-how and .
abilities to turn uranium into weapons grade plutonium. This worries western officials, .
thinking that Bin Laden could already have already developed the bomb. .
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Though a nuclear weapons aren't limited to big explosions with mushroom clouds. .
Convention weapons packed with radioactive materials could 'cause mayhem as well. If a .
bomb exploaded holding, or surrounded by radioactive materials, this could spread te .
radiation around the surrounding blocks, making it inhabitable for the people to be there. .
Also it would be hard to tell if the bomb was radioactive, as you would need a giga .
counter to even test to see if there was radioactivity in the air. This has become known as .
the "Dirty Bomb", created by Russians for a spy to plant in a heavily populated area and .
set off. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, many of these weapons have been .
unaccounted for by the Russians, leaving the Westerners to worry.
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In Russia, security for Nuclear waste is especially poor, and the potention for .
diversion and actual use by Islamic aradicals has been shown to be very real. Russian .
Scientists and workers looking for a little extra cash, could always help the terrorists or, .
give them easy access to finding weapons and nuclear capabilites. In 1996, rebels had .
gotten ahold of a Dirty Bomb on Moscow's Izmailovo Park to demonstrate Russias.
vulnerability. This device would not have killed as many people in the attacks on .
