University Daily Kansan / Tuesday March 31. 1987
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Expert says countries pose nuclear threat, not terrorists
By CAROLINE REDDICK
Staff writer
The United States should fear nuclear warfare with some countries more than it should with terrorists, a member of the 1985-86 International Task Force on Combating Nuclear Terrorism said yesterday at the Kansas Union.
"I would say that the danger, does not come so much from terrorists but from what I called the threshold countries: Israel, South Africa, India and Pakistan." A speech entitled "Nuclear Terrorism: A New Concern for the World Community?"
"Even the worst of terrorists don't want to totally alienate the population." Fischer said. "You won't win if you lose your cause by killing 100,000 people."
The "threshold countries" that Fischer defined refused to sign the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, whose signees agreed to regular international inspections of their nuclear power plants to assure that they were not manufacturing nuclear weapons.
He said that the real danger was not that these countries would use the bomb, but that they were operating plants that had not been through an international inspection.
He said that dangerous situations could arise if the treaty were not ratified.
"I believe that if we are skillful and careful, we can probably keep these four countries on hold." Fischer said.
Fischer said he thought that nuclear terrorism was unlikely, because terrorists' would find it difficult to manufacture a bomb.
"If you're a terrorist, there are much easier ways of terrifying a population. Chemicals and biological weapons can be a terrorist to get hold of," he said.
Fischer said that it would be
almost impossible for terrorists to take control of a U.S. nuclear warhead.
"They're outfitted these days so that no one without the secret codes could fuse them," he said.
Fischer said that it was unlikely that a country would sponsor nuclear terrorism. He offered Libya and Moammar Gadhafi as an example.
Fischer said that the best precautions against nuclear terrorism were tighter security at nuclear power and miniminal plutonium shipments.
"It if were easy to do, it would have been done." he said. "Gadhafu did that."
Maynard Shelly, professor of psychology, who teaches a class on terrorism, said he thought that nuclear terrorism was a possibility.
He said, "Jimmy the Greek gave 2-1 odds several years ago that a terrorist would set off a nuclear bomb in some city by 1990."
Studio to be debated at meeting
By a Kansan reporter
One day before the world premiere of a movie that was filmed in Lawrence, city commissioners will discuss at tonight's meeting a $35 million request for industrial revenue bonds for construction of a movie studio in Lawrence.
Commissioners will preside over the public hearing at their 7 p.m.
meeting in City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
"Nice Girls Don't Explode," a new World Pictures release, will premiere at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Granada Theater, 1020 Massachusetts St. The movie was filmed last year in Lawrence, Overland Park and Ottawa.
to build a 28,000-square-foot studio,
called Oread Studios, in University
Corporate Research Park, 15th
Street and Wakarusa Drive.
Plans say the building will be the home of studio offices, two 8,000 square-foot sound stages and classrooms for the KU theater and media arts department.
Doug Curtis, the movie's co-producer and a 1984 KU graduate, wants
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