“The threat of nuclear terrorism is growing faster than our ability to prevent an attack on our homeland.” Quote by Joe Lieberman
“The greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation to an increasing number of states.” StatesNationsNumbersSecurityThreatTerrorismNuclearViolentExtremistProliferationNuclear ProliferationNuclear Terrorism Author:Barack Obama
“One of our gravest concerns is the entry of a nuclear device or materials into the U.S.” MaterialsConcernTerrorismNuclearDevicesEntry Author:Charles E. Allen
“The near-term attacks ... will either rival or exceed the 9/11 attacks... And it's pretty clear that the nation's capital and New York city would be on any list.” Would BeNationsTermCitiesClearNew YorkTerrorismListsNew York CityRivalsExceed Author:Tom Ridge
“What we're going to see is the emergence of the lone wolf rather than the planning of large numbers of people to carry out large attacks...Explosives are getting more sophisticated.” PeopleNumbersTerrorismPlanningSophisticatedLarge NumbersEmergenceLoneExplosivesLone Wolf Author:Dianne Feinstein
“We now have capabilities in science and technology that raise the very realistic possibility that a small group of terrorists could kill not only thousands of people, as they did on September 11th, but hundreds of thousands of people. And that has changed the dimension of the threat we face.” PeopleFacesTechnologyGroupsPossibilityChangedRaisesThreatTerrorismTerroristDimensionsRealisticCapabilitySeptemberSeptember 11Science And TechnologySmall GroupsSeptember 11th Author:Michael Chertoff
“In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.” CrimeIndiaTerrorismSickness Author:Abdul Kalam
“I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.” BelieveSaidRiskHappenedTerrorismTerroristConversionConferencesHarvardHysteriaTerrorist Attacks Author:Ulrich Beck
“But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.” WarRealTakenClearResponseTerrorismMetaphoricalWaging War Author:Ulrich Beck
“In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.” FirstsKindCommunityCommonFateImpossibleTerrorismInstanceInsomniaGlobal Community Author:Ulrich Beck
“The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.” MenLittlesOrderCourageBraveryParadoxBe BraveCarelessMoral Courage Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton