Nuclear strike 'key terror risk'
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The West must realise it cannot prevent all terror attacks and focus on nuclear strikes, a top academic says.
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MADRID -- Western intelligence and security officials say the threat of a terror attack by Islamic militants over the Christmas and New Year's holiday travel season is extremely high, with the greatest concern focusing on a possible plot targeting Europe.
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The UK's national terrorism threat level has been raised to "critical" after attacks in Glasgow and London.
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A UN team monitoring sanctions on Al Qaeda predicted yesterday there will be an escalation in the brutality of terrorist attacks, saying the network remains determined to strike around the world. Terrorism involving Al Qaeda and weapons of mass destruction remain among the paramount global threats, the team said in a report. Al Qaeda still had a strong interest in ...
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The world must take immediate action against the real threat of nuclear terrorism to prevent a September 11-style outrage, the head of the UN's atomic energy watchdog agency warned.
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The Australian government said on Wednesday it has received advice suggesting terrorists are ready to carry out an attack shortly in Indonesia and a Hilton hotel could be the target.
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Preventing terrorists from getting their hands on nuclear material was the focus Monday of a meeting in Australia among government ministers and diplomats from across the Asia-Pacific region.
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Western governments must take seriously the possibility of terrorists exploding a nuclear bomb as the necessary materials and know-how become easier to acquire, security analysts argue in two new reports.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.  - It is "only a matter of  time" before militants try to launch a seaborne attack on the  United States, but threats of terrorism are greater abroad  because they are avoiding hardened U.S. targets, a senior U.S.  military official said on Wednesday.
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U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham on Saturday called on countries to find and secure nuclear and other dangerous material to keep it out of the hands of terrorists.
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Britons travelling to Indonesia over Christmas and the New Year face a &quot;heightened risk&quot; of terrorist attacks, the Foreign Office in London has warned.
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The world faces a "race against time" to  prevent nuclear terror, the United Nation's nuclear watchdog  chief said on Monday, citing an extensive illicit market in  nuclear and radioactive materials after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Making nuclear power plants crash-proof to an airliner attack by terrorists is impracticable and it's up to the military to avert such an assault
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Shadow defence secretary Liam Fox claims Russia could pose as big a threat to Britain's future security as Iran.
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Enough weapons-grade plutonium to make more than 15,000 nuclear bombs will be vulnerable to hijacking by terrorists and rogue states as the result of a disarmament initiative.
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Britain's support for the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq has put the public at greater risk of terrorist attacks, the main opposition Conservative party leader David Cameron said Monday - opening a division on ...Comment
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Al Qaeda will attempt an attack on a key  maritime target in the next 12 months with potentially  devastating economic consequences, UK security experts said on  Friday.