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CPC Outreach Journal #342 USAF COUNTERPROLIFERATION CENTER CPC OUTREACH JOURNAL Maxwell AFB, Alabama Issue No. 342, 25 May 2004 Articles & Other Documents: Simulated Attack At Pentagon Tests Government State confirms N. Korea light-water reactor talk Response Capabilities Senate Approves $5.6 Billion for 10-Year 'Bioshield' Inside The Ring Project Biodefense Lab In U.S. Is Questioned Evidence Is Cited Linking Koreans to Libya Uranium The North Korean Uranium Challenge U.S. Announces It Intends To Move Tons Of Uranium From Baghdad Case Reveals Nuts And Bolts Of Nuclear Network, Homeland Security: DHS Needs a Strategy to Use Officials Say DOE's Laboratories for Research on Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Detection and Response Technologies. (GAO Report) Welcome to the CPC Outreach Journal. As part of USAF Counterproliferation Center’s mission to counter weapons of mass destruction through education and research, we’re providing our government and civilian community a source for timely counterproliferation information. This information includes articles, papers and other documents addressing issues pertinent to US military response options for dealing with nuclear, biological and chemical threats and attacks. It’s our hope this information resource will help enhance your counterproliferation issue awareness. Established in 1998, the USAF/CPC provides education and research to present and future leaders of the Air Force, as well as to members of other branches of the armed services and Department of Defense. Our purpose is to help those agencies better prepare to counter the threat from weapons of mass destruction. Please feel free to visit our web site at www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc-cps.htm for in-depth information and specific points of contact. Please direct any questions or comments on CPC Outreach Journal Jo Ann Eddy, CPC Outreach Editor, at (334) 953- 7538 or DSN 493-7538. To subscribe, change e-mail address, or unsubscribe to this journal or to request inclusion on the mailing list for CPC publications, please contact Mrs. Eddy. The following articles, papers or documents do not necessarily reflect official endorsement of the United States Air Force, Department of Defense, or other US government agencies. Reproduction for private use or commercial gain is subject to original copyright restrictions. All rights are reserved GovExec.com May 19, 2004 Simulated Attack At Pentagon Tests Government Response Capabilities By Chris Strohm The government's ability to respond to another domestic terrorist attack was put to the test Wednesday when a simulated radiological "dirty bomb" went off at the Pentagon. The exercise, called Gallant Fox II, was staged to test the Pentagon Force Protection Agency's emergency response units in a real-world scenario. Meanwhile, in New York City, the federal commission investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks at the Pentagon and World Trade Center ended two days of hearings on emergency response Wednesday by concluding that agencies were plagued by poor communication and coordination. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge testified Wednesday before the commission. "Poor communications across agencies harmed situational awareness," the commission announced in a written statement following Wednesday's hearing. "Commanders had difficulty communicating with their units, and could not account comprehensively for units once they arrived at the World Trade Center. The response at the Pentagon, generally successful, was plagued with similar problems of self-dispatching and poor communications." PFPA Chief John Jester said Wednesday's drill at the Pentagon showed that agencies could effectively handle another domestic attack. "Here in the Pentagon, we think we're well prepared," he said. "I think overall the government is preparing and having exercises throughout the country. Everyone's working just like we are in trying to teach their personnel how to respond to various situations." The simulation consisted of a terrorist parking a car with a radiological bomb at a Pentagon parking lot. Sensors near the Pentagon alerted officials that a radiological device was in the area. The terrorist then approached a group of soldiers in training and blew himself up with a conventional bomb, killing some soldiers and injuring many others. The suicide attack was a diversionary tactic to prevent officials from reaching the car and diffusing the bomb. Pentagon police and fire crews from Arlington, Va., arrived on the scene and began to tend to the bomb victims while a PFPA hazardous materials crew began searching for the bomb. The crew found the explosive but was unable to diffuse it before it went off, sending a plume of radiological smoke into the air heading for a nearby Arlington community. The rest of the exercise consisted of simulated responses, including tending to victims, evacuations and closing of roadways. Jester said PFPA was created in May 2002 to replace the Defense Protective Services and provide the capability to respond to any emergency. The agency has 800 employees and is still hiring, he added. "After 9/11, it was decided that we needed to beef up that organization with more resources but also to have an organization that can deal with any kind of threat," he said. "The term 'force protection' within [Defense] is meant to have measures for all kinds of emergencies." Since then, PFPA has developed a public address and electronic messaging system to inform personnel at the Pentagon what to do during an emergency. The Pentagon was not evacuated Wednesday, but personnel were notified about the drill. "We're constantly training, constantly looking at our procedures, revising those procedures and trying to stay on top of what intelligence is around so that we're ready for any event that might occur," Jester said. "What we're trying to do is make people in [the Pentagon] more aware of what they should do," he added. "We have a system in the Pentagon to communicate to the employees ... We have a public address system which is very clear now throughout the entire building so we can get on one microphone and talk to the entire building, all 17 miles of hallway. At the same time, we have a computer emergency network system where we can put a message on our computer and then send it and it will hit all 20,000 computers in the building within a minute or so." Other federal, state and local agencies participated in the event, including the Environmental Protection Agency, FBI, Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Energy, and Homeland Security departments, U.S. Park Police, the American Red Cross, Washington, D.C., police and several fire and police departments from Virginia. Jester said a formal review of the drill would begin on Thursday to determine what lessons were learned. http://govexec.com/dailyfed/0504/051904c1.htm (Return to Articles and Documents List) Washington Times May 20, 2004 State confirms N. Korea light-water reactor talk By Bill Gertz, The Washington Times The State Department yesterday confirmed that North Korea discussed another deal with the United States for a nuclear reactor program during closed-door talks in Beijing last week, as three lawmakers urged the Bush administration not to resurrect a reactor deal with Pyongyang. State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said North Korean negotiators "did raise the reactor issue, but it's not something that we entertained." He said the United States will not agree to provide North Korea reactors until it first agrees to abandon its nuclear arms programs. Mr. Ereli's comments were in response to a story in The Washington Times yesterday that said the U.S. negotiator told the North Koreans construction of a light-water reactor is possible if the communist country gives up its nuclear program and rejoins international nuclear control agreements. The story, citing anonymous U.S. officials, set off a debate within the U.S. government over whether its chief negotiator, Joseph DeTrani, had exceeded his instructions, which limited discussion of light-water reactors. Mr. Ereli said the U.S. goal in the six-party talks, which ended Friday, was to build a consensus for North Korea to agree to "complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement." "We're not prepared to provide inducements to North Korea for compliance with its international obligations," Mr. Ereli said. "Talking about one aspect of North Korea's nuclear program or another aspect of the nuclear program is not where we're at." The United States, Japan and South Korea agreed to provide North Korea with two light-water reactors as part of the 1994 Agreed Framework, in exchange for Pyongyang stopping all work on nuclear arms. That agreement collapsed after North Korea's disclosure in October 2002 that it had a covert uranium enrichment program that could be used to make nuclear weapons. A light-water nuclear reactor is supposed to be safer because it limits the possibility of using it for making weapons. On Capitol Hill, three members of Congress wrote yesterday to Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, urging the administration to withdraw any offer of a reactor to North Korea. "This idea should be taken off the table immediately," the lawmakers said. The letter was signed by Rep. Christopher Cox, California Republican; Rep. Henry J. Hyde, Illinois Republican, and Sen. Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican, who were commenting on The Times article. Mr. Cox is chairman of the Homeland Security Committee and Mr. Hyde is chairman of the International Relations Committee. "North Korea has a long and dangerous history of violating the international nonproliferation agreements it has signed," the letter stated. "We urge you to step up America's public diplomacy on this issue to ease any ambiguity in the U.S. position and to ensure that Kim Jong-il's negotiators fully comprehend that this aspect of the Agreed Framework will not be resurrected." According to Bush administration officials familiar with the talks, North Korean negotiator Ri Gun asked whether the light-water reactors would be supplied if North Korea addressed its "highly enriched uranium program" during a side meeting with Mr.
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