[Velveeta]

11/2001 Nuclear al-Qa`ida reportedly acquires a Russian-made suitcase nuclear weapon from Central Asian sources. The device is reported to weigh 8 kg and to possess at least 2 kg of fissionable uranium and plutonium. The report said the device, with a serial number of 9999 and a manufacturing date of October 1998, could be set off by a mobile phone signal.

11/14/2001 "Reports from Pakistan" "N-weapons May be in US Already," Daily Telegraph (Sydney, Australia), 14 November 2001

[Calpernia]

Why wouldn't NEST be able to detect these things if this is true?

[Velveeta]

Sorry, forgot link:

Chart: Al-Qa`ida's WMD Activities
http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/other/sjm_cht.htm