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[JuntaJoe]

Nuclear Terrorism Docudrama

Last Best Chance, To Be Released in May; Film Will Be “Wake-Up Call” to the Public. Last Best Chance, a new docudrama illustrating the threat posed by vulnerable nuclear weapons and materials around the world, will be released to the public later this month following an invitation-only screening on May 18 at the Motion Picture Association of America in Washington, D.C.

The screening is co-hosted by NTI co-chairmen Ted Turner and Sam Nunn, Senator Richard Lugar, 9/11 Commission Chair Thomas H. Kean and Vice Chair Lee Hamilton, Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, and MacArthur Foundation
President Jonathan Fanton.

The film, starring Fred D. Thompson (Law & Order, Cape Fear, The Hunt for Red October) as President of the United States, is a fact-based but fictional film that demonstrates the urgent need to lock down nuclear weapons and materials wherever they exist.

The film got a powerful boost this weekend when Warren Buffett encouraged shareholders at his annual Berkshire Hathaway meeting to visit www.lastbestchance.org to order a copy of the film.
Mr. Buffett told shareholders that the film was “fictional but not fanciful” and that the threat posed by nuclear, biological and chemical weapons is real.

Members of the public can sign up for a copy of the film at www.lastbestchance.org. The 45-minute film was produced with support from the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), with additional
funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and was written and directed by Ben Goddard.

The film is followed by a conversation about nuclear dangers with Tom Brokaw, former Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA) and Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN). “The least expensive, most effective way to prevent nuclear terrorism is to lock down nuclear weapons and materials at the source, in every country and facility that has them. I hope that this film will be a wake-up call to the public and to policymakers about the gap between the threat and governments’ responses to it,” said Sam Nunn, co-chairman of NTI. “When people are moving too slowly to respond to a danger, one option is to make it more vivid. The film is frightening, but it is not fear mongering. Seeing the danger is the first step to reducing the risk,” said Ted Turner, co-chairman of NTI. www.nti.org 2

In the film, al Qaeda operatives organize three separate operations aimed at getting nuclear weapons. Governments around the world discover clues to the plot and race to try and stop the terrorists before it’s too late. "Nuclear terrorism is the greatest threat to our country. We need an all-out effort to lock up the weapons-grade nuclear material scattered around the world. Last Best Chance is not a message of despair but a message of hope. If we act now, we can protect the American people and
prevent disaster,” said 9/11 Commission Chair and Vice Chair, Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton. “Last Best Chance can be a valuable public awareness tool to increase understanding of the global nuclear terrorism threat,” said Senator Richard Lugar, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a member of the NTI Board of Directors. “The war on terrorism will not be won until every nuclear stockpile, wherever it may be in the world, is secured and accounted for to stringent and transparent standards. This has been the goal of the Nunn-Lugar program and why we are expanding it beyond the former Soviet Union.”

Last Best Chance is based on facts about the lack of security for nuclear weapons and materials:
• The bipartisan 9/11 Commission reported that al Qaeda has been trying to acquire nuclear weapons for ten years and cited reports that bin Laden wants to carry out a "Hiroshima."
• There are a number of confirmed incidents around the world in which governments have seized stolen highly enriched uranium or plutonium.
• There are more than 100 research reactors or associated facilities worldwide with 20 kg or more of HEU -- potentially enough for a bomb. Since threat reduction programs began, all HEU has been removed from less than 20 percent of these sites.
• The largest amount of vulnerable material is in Russia, but bomb-making material also is used in 40 different countries, including places like Belarus, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
• Only 50% of the nuclear material in Russia has received cooperative security upgrades.
• There is no single U.S. official responsible for keeping nuclear weapons out of terrorists’ hands.

Additional information about Last Best Chance and the global nuclear threat can be found at
www.lastbestchance.org.

[Claire]

Nuclear material requires a delivery system of some reliability. Even the 100 suitcase size devices Mr. Lebed told us were missing have been held at bay due the the surprising number of radiological detecting devices we encounter without knowing. On the other hand, merely brushing against the condensation alone from an improperly packaged container of sarin will eat a 5" hole in a man's back including the three vertabrae underneath. An areosolized verson of this weapon would travel through any airport in the world. This weapon is a terrorist's wet dream.

[Brf]

It only take 5-kg of U-233, which can be produced in research reactors, to produce a nuclear bomb. That amount also applies for Plutonium.....

[CooJoe]

I ordered the DVD.

Anybody seen "The Day After" nuclear holocaust is some scary stuff,

[JuntaJoe]

Ordered mine about 11pm on Wednesday.

Be nice and send them a $10 donation if you like it.

That should about cover their total expense per copy when you figure movie production, disc, packaging, burning, and shipping.

If you hate the flick, but like the cause then a fiver should cover everything but the movie production costs.

[Claire]

CooJoe, it is scary stuff and it's not gone unnoticed. We had covert action teams in the field in 76 countries last year tasked with finding "special project" weapons. NSA is seven times larger than the CIA and considerably better funded. They have any military resources they need at their disposal and even a retired asset may be drug back into the fray in what is known as a "hostile recruitment."

Joe, I don't know how to feel about the project. My first thought was the safety of the men and a few women in the field who could be put at risk because of bright light shown on the subject. The first tennant of epidemiology is: "Don't panic the public." Let us hope this documentary is circulated in groups who can think beyond the panic factor.

You guys keep giving the UN hell and make a lot of noise, okay? It's the cover fire some very brave people use to move through the night while attention is drawn elsewhere. The boys need your cover.

There is a delicious conundrum: We can't find those WMD's... and niether can they. Where did they go? Only the Shadows know."

[JuntaJoe]

It came today!

I'll review it later.

About two weeks for a freebee ain't bad at all.

[CooJoe]

Mine came in aswell.

Haven't watched it yet.