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The United States faces a "quite real" threat of a terrorist attack
on its soil with nuclear, chemical or
"The likelihood is quite real," Cohen told NBC television's "Meet the
Press" program. "There is a
"The likelihood of an attack on American soil, using either a chemical
or biological or, indeed, a
The warning followed a reassessment of external threats facing the United
States in the
Military analysts believe that even though the collapse of the Soviet
Union has left the United States
"No country is going to take us on head-on," said Cohen. "They'll look for asymmetric types of threats and attacks, for example,
through the use of chemical or
He said the Clinton administration was aware that about two dozen nations
were developing
He also refused to rule out the possibility that a portable nuclear
weapon could be smuggled and
"We know that there are many nuclear weapons, small nuclear weapons
that can be transported,"
Cohen said the government had already organized 27 "weapons of mass
destruction civil support
This week, the US government is wrapping up a major exercise designed
to ready the country for a
The 10-day drill code-named "TOPOFF" scheduled to conclude on Tuesday
is being conducted in
In New Hampshire, emergency teams are practicing a response to a simulated
chemical weapons
To underscore to importance the US government attaches to raising the
level of preparedness, US
But the US government, including the Pentagon, had egg on its face last
week, when the US
The General Accounting Office reported that its agents penetrated the
Defense, State and Justice
Cohen accepted the blame for the security breaches. "That's a deficiency on our part," he said. "It certainly is, and it
takes these kinds of tests to expose
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