Dick Lugar: “I found in the current issue of the National Journal a very important article entitled ``Nuclear Nightmares,'' by James…”

“I found in the current issue of the National Journal a very important article entitled ``Nuclear Nightmares,'' by James Kitfield, who has written knowledgeably in the past about matters of national security, and particularly those involving nuclear energy and weapons of mass destruction. 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.”