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Ex 9/11 Commissioner Hamilton Warns of Use of Nuclear Materials

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Thursday, March 31st, 2011

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By Calvin Biesecker The former vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission yesterday warned a Senate panel that securing nuclear materials around the world remains an important priority yet access to these materials, and the ability to "explode" them, remains worrisome. Lee Hamilton said that in discussions he has had with "highly qualified people within our government...I believe the access to nuclear materials and the ability to use those materials and to explode them is much greater than people generally think."…

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