DoD News, International News
... He said it was hard to imagine that terrorists could obtain nuclear materials from anywhere other than a state.
... He said it was hard to imagine that terrorists could obtain nuclear materials from anywhere other than a state.
Asked what the consequences would be for a state that supplied nuclear weapons used in a terrorist attack on the United States, Gates said, “The way we’ve always framed it is the consequences for a state who unleashed a weapon of mass destruction on the United States would be catastrophic.
“We went through this in the lead up to the first Gulf War. We never were explicit about it. We just said the consequences would be catastrophic. It is best to leave it ambiguous.” ....
