At a glance:
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Current affairs
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Islam, Muslims, Government, Bombs, Terrorism or terrorists, Presidents, Nuclear warfare or weapons, Middle East, Intelligence service, Arms or weapons, Armaments, 2000’s
In October, 2001, just weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks, a tense drama unfolded in New York City. Unknown to the public, a team of scientists was walking the city's streets with disguised equipment to detect the radioactivity of an atomic weapon. On October 11, George Tenet, head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), informed President George W. Bush that the CIA had received word through an agent code-named Dragonfly that al-Qaeda had smuggled a 10-kiloton nuclear device into New York City. The team of scientists attempting to locate the weapon found themselves...
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