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Weapons of Mass Destruction (EUC Report)

My Lords, my point was that anyone with the know-how, which can be easily got, can get the fissile material to build a crude nuclear weapon—not the kind that states would want, but you could wreak havoc with it. Even a dirty bomb, which is just nuclear materials packed around an ordinary bomb, could cause enormous panic in any city centre. So that comment is not completely accurate. We must worry about non-state actors because that is the way the world is going. The most significant change happening in the world is the large range of non-state actors who can intervene within and across countries today.