New Report Calls Nuclear or Biological Attack by 2013 Likely

On 2 December, the Washington Post reported excerpts from the draft report of the congressionally mandated, bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, stating the increasing likelihood of a terrorist attack on a city using a weapon of mass destruction by the end of 2013, and urging the incoming Obama administration to take "decisive action" to reduce the likelihood of a devastating attack.

“…While the panel found the risk of an attack with such weapons to be increasingly serious, ‘nuclear terrorism is still a preventable catastrophe,’ the report says. It calls for aggressive steps to secure unguarded stockpiles of nuclear weapons material such as uranium and plutonium, as well as coordinated international efforts to discover and disrupt smuggling rings that traffic in atomic technology……The United States should push for a global consensus banning states such as Iran and North Korea from adding to their stockpiles of enriched uranium and plutonium, while also ensuring supplies of commercial reactor fuel for countries that renounce nuclear weapons, the report says...” 

Full article

Full report