{"id":1481,"date":"2007-03-28T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/03\/richardson-outlines-plan-to-prevent-a-nuclear-911\/"},"modified":"2007-03-28T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-28T17:42:00","slug":"richardson-outlines-plan-to-prevent-a-nuclear-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/03\/richardson-outlines-plan-to-prevent-a-nuclear-911\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson outlines plan to prevent a &#8216;nuclear 9\/11&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RgqpIwDZlnI\/AAAAAAAABxk\/aJmfMqSFrhc\/s1600-h\/Richardsonforpresident.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RgqpIwDZlnI\/AAAAAAAABxk\/aJmfMqSFrhc\/s200\/Richardsonforpresident.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5047032300225271410\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardsonforpresident.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a> says the <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">United   States<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> must do more to prevent a \u201cnuclear 9\/11,\u201d a threat he says the Bush Administration has ignored.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city> made the remarks today while giving a policy speech on his plan to prevent nuclear terrorism at <st1:placename st=\"on\">Johns<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">Hopkins<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">University<\/st1:placetype> in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Washington<\/st1:city>, <st1:state st=\"on\">D.C.<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> You can read <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city><\/st1:place>\u2019s remarks by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sais-jhu.edu\/pubaffairs\/PDF\/nuclear911.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. You can listen to his speech by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sais-jhu.edu\/mp3_player\/richardson032807.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He said the <st1:country-region st=\"on\">United States<\/st1:country-region> must help secure nuclear material in the former <st1:place st=\"on\">Soviet  Union<\/st1:place> and work to prevent such material from getting into the hands of terrorists, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070328\/ap_on_el_pr\/richardson_nuclear911;_ylt=Agi_q.LMdQpUZmClyIUHBrrMWM0F\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> said it isn\u2019t practical to support a nuclear-free world, but said reduction and securing of weapons are reasonable goals. He said the Bush Administration has become consumed by <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:country-region st=\"on\">Iraq<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place> and, in the meantime, hasn\u2019t adequately funded programs to reduce weapons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The work won\u2019t be easy, <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cIt took a <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Manhattan<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> project to create the bomb,\u201d the news service quoted him as saying. \u201cWe need a new <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Manhattan<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> project to stop the bomb \u2013 a comprehensive program to secure all nuclear weapons and all weapons-usable material worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Bill Richardson says the United States must do more to prevent a \u201cnuclear 9\/11,\u201d a threat he says the Bush Administration has ignored. Richardson made the remarks today while giving a policy speech on his plan to prevent nuclear terrorism at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. You can read Richardson\u2019s remarks by clicking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}