Re: Bin Laden's attempts to acquire nuclear materials

From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Thu Sep 13 2001 - 22:06:01 MDT


"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
>
> Bin Laden's attempts to acquire nuclear materials:
>
> http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/reports/binladen.htm
> http://www.google.com/search?q=laden+nuclear
>

So he may have as many as 20 "suitcase nukes".

According to this page:

http://www.cdn-friends-icej.ca/isreport/septoct99/binladen.html

it may be internal US policy to allow use of nukes against "nonstate
actors" who have been shown to possess WMD.

-- 
Brian Atkins
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/



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