Nuclear terrorism risk seen growing
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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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Some sites with bomb-grade uranium have no more security than a night watchman and chain-link fence, researchers said on Wednesday, warning against complacency in deterring nuclear theft and terrorism.
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Highlights of the U.S. program to reduce the threat of terrorists obtaining nuclear materials in Russia and at foreign research reactors.
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Patients treated with radioactive  material face an increased risk of triggering security alarms  because more guards are being equipped with sensitive radiation  detectors, a report said Tuesday.
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In justifying the accelerated deployment of a nationwide anti-missile system, the Bush administration has cited a growing missile threat, particularly from North Korea.
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The risk of a terrorist attack on a nuclear research reactor on a college campus has been underestimated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, according to Congressional auditors.
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Terrorism has overtaken weak job growth and the budget deficit as the biggest risk to the US economy, and inflation fears are slowly building, a survey of American businesses out on Tuesday showed.
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Two plots foiled in a single day suggests that extremist terror networks are growing more active in Europe
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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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The possibility that al-Qaida or its sympathizers could gain access to a nuclear bomb is the greatest danger facing the United States in the war on terrorism, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday.
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Why European counter-terror officials share U.S. concerns of an imminent threat
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How feasible is a nuclear terrorist attack on the U.S.?
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Â· Stark warning from leading think tank Â· Iran could have its own bomb by 2009 Â· Islamic countries radicalising at a pace
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Top intelligence officials said they remained concerned that terrorists were regrouping to attempt another major attack on America.
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The next terrorist threat may come from the deep. In recent years, several homeland security alerts have focused on the danger of scuba-equipped terrorists targeting docked Navy vessels or ocean-side nuclear plants. Now the U.S. military is quietly developing a new generation of underwater weaponry.
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The world's stockpiles of plutonium and  highly enriched uranium useable in atomic weapons are growing,  despite increasing fears about the security of nuclear  materials, a U.S. based think-tank says in a new report.
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The next terrorist assault on the United States is likely to come through relatively unsophisticated, near-simultaneous attacks -- similar to those attempted in Britain over the weekend -- designed more to provoke widespread fear and panic than to cause major losses of life, U.S. intelligence and...