terrorism. that s where a small group of people can really make a difference. maybe one person is able to carry out a nuclear attack or even a dirty bomb attack, the results would be serious. february 2010, an elite team of american scientists and engineers assemble secretly in the nation of chile and south america. their mission is to shield and transport safely 30 pounds of radioactive uranium, enough uranium to devastate a city in a bomb blast, enough uranium to be in a bomb blast. they try to keep it off the black market, to bring it to the u.s., to lock it down. everything goes as plan. an 800-pound cast will hold the material after it s carefully removed from its storage pools.
short clip, short preview. in august 2001 weeks before 9/11 osama bin laden and his al qaeda deputy meet around a campfire in kandahar, afghanistan, with one of pakistan s top nuclear scientists. they discuss al qaeda s aspirations to build a nuclear bomb. the two apparently met in what is referred to as the fireside chat or at a dinner and talked about al qaeda s interest in nuclear bombs where the al qaeda leader apparently was trying to gain some basic sense of what it would take. ralph mow et larson is a veteran u.s. intelligence officer. a famous question he apparently asked at the end of that meeting was after bashir was trying to tell him how hard this was and how difficult it was for pakistan, bin laden said if i have the material, then how do i build it? the pakistani scientist sulton bashir mahmoud later confirms to u.s. officials that is the meeting took place and
pencil drawingful a crude nuclear bomb design. just one month after that meeting in kandahar september 11th, 2001. as the united states reel from the attacks, those who know about that meeting at that kandahar campfire reel over what may be about to come next. overnight the most important question for the united states government becomes how far along is al qaeda in its pursuit of a nuclear bomb and how can the united states stop them from assembling one? that s a piece of cake if you have enough material. if you look at the hiroshima bomb, you know, it was 50 kelo grams of hgu. the oklahoma city bombing was two tons. if you about back and look at the devastation, the two-ton bomb, think of 13,000 tons versus two tons. it s it s inconceivable. even if you look at the hiroshima pictures, it s inconceivable. if you have the material, it s not hard to build that bomb? no. ralph moet larson had been
that he gave al qaeda leaders a pencil drawing of a crude nuclear bomb design. just one month after that meeting in kandahar september 11th, 2001. as the united states reels from the attacks, those who know about that meeting at that kandahar campfire reel over what may be about to come next. overnight the most important question for the united states government becomes how far along is al qaeda in its pursuit of a nuclear bomb and how can the united states stop them from assembling one? that s a piece of cake if you have enough material. if you look at the hiroshima bomb, it was 50 kilograms have hgu. the oklahoma city bombing was two tons. if you about back and look at the devastation, the two-ton bomb, think of 13,000 tons versus two tons. it s it s inconceivable. even if you look at the hiroshima pictures, it s inconceivable. if you have the material, it s not hard to build that bomb? no.
ralph moet larson had been planning on a new cia posting in beijing, but after 9/11, just after 9/11 he is drafted personally by cia director george tenet to lead a new effort instead. that is one of my most vivid memories. he said to me we re behind the eight ball, and the reason he said that, which i didn t know what he meant at that precise moment, was because we had information about this meeting with the pakistan scientist and bin laden before 9/11. november 2001 moet larson and tenet at the direction of president george w. bush are dispatched to pakistan to confront pakistan s president pervez musharraf about the fireside chat that s turned up in u.s. intellig r the possibility that pakistani nuclear scientists are assisting al qaeda in pursuing a nuclear bomb. president musharraf s initial reaction was men in caves can t do this. that s what we expected. it s the same incredulity we all felt. it s part of a two-part