financial commitment by the united states. in his first term, president obama ramps these efforts up adding billions to their budget. today, i am announcing a new international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years. reporter: the fact that there has not been an incident of nuclear terrorism since 9/11 is a great success story for the decades since. the persistence of new material smuggle, the persistence of the black market, however, means there are still paying customers out there, trying to take terrorism nuclear. how would the last decade have been different if 9/11 had been a nuclear blast or even a dirty bomb attack? how would the next decade unspool if that ever does happen? if al qaeda or another group like it did succeed in detonating a nuclear device, that would not be the end of the world, something would happen next. what do you think would happen next in the united states and around the world. that kind of attack on the un
nuclear material from the same facility. there is a pipeline out of siberia supplying a black market in what it takes to build a nuclear bomb. find it and shut it down. july 2010, south africa, during a sting operation caught on a surveillance camera. five men are arrested for trying to sell highly radioactive cesium 137, perfect for a dirty bomb attack. they also say they have an industrial nuclear device to sell. there appears to be evidence of kinetic black market material. where were the smugglers getting the material? who were they getting it for? this is a black market in local cataclysm. is there material to make a nuclear bomb? there s been material in the
next. overnight the most important question for the government is how far along is al qaeda in the pursuit of a nuclear bomb. how can the united states stop them? that s a piece of cake if you have enough material. if you look at the hiroshima bomb, 50 kilograms of hdu. the oklahoma city bomb was two tons. if you look at the devastation of a two-ton bomb, think of 13,000 tons versus two tons. it s inconceivable. if you look at the pictures, it s inconceivable. it s not hard. no. ralph larson was planning on a posting in beijing. after 9/11, just after 9/11, he is drafted personally by george tenet to lead a new effort instead. that is one of the most vivid 34e78ryes. he said we are behind the eight ball. we didn t know what he meant.
about this meeting with pakistan and bin laden before 2001. at the direction of george w. bush are dispatched toh the pre, the possibility that pakistani nuclear scientists are assisting al-qaeda in pursuing a newman le nuclear bomb. his first reaction was men in caves can t do this. tenet and larson order them to inventory all of pakistan s military material. as of now, there is no indication of anything gone missing. but now, as then, musharraf downplays the accusation that they might be doing anything.
beijing. but after 9/11, just after 9/11, he s drafted permanently by cia director george tenet to lead a new disaster instead. he said ware behind the 8-ball, which i didn t know what he meant at that precise moment, was that we had information about this meeting with pakistan and bin laden before 2001. at the direction of george w. bush are dispatched to pakistan to approach the president about the fireside chat that s turned up in u.s. intelligence reports, the possibility that pakistani nuclear scientists are assisting al-qaeda in pursuing a newman nuclear bomb. his first reaction was men in caves can t do this. tenet and larson order them to inventory all of pakistan s