Dick Lugar: “I wish to quote liberally from what I think are remarkable summaries of some very tough decisions that we will need to…”

“I wish to quote liberally from what I think are remarkable summaries of some very tough decisions that we will need to make. The author begins: The recent disclosure that documents about nuclear bombs and radiological "dirty bombs" had been found at captured Al Qaeda terrorist network facilities in Kabul, Afghanistan, immediately triggered alarms among the nuclear scientists who work atop the high desert mesas in this remote region of New Mexico. For more than 50 years, nuclear experts at Los Alamos and at nearby Sandia National Laboratories have studied terrorist and criminal groups for any signs that they were on the verge of cracking the nuclear code first broken here. Everything they knew about Al Qaeda told them that these terrorists might be drawing too close to a terrible discovery. Indeed, ever since members of the Manhattan Project tested the first atomic bomb in New Mexico in 1945, scientists at Los Alamos have been the pre-eminent keepers of the nuclear flame.”