Aviation Week runs a series of articles entitled "The Post-Cold War Nightmare."

• Senator Sam Nunn: "We've seen that small groups can disrupt society on a massive scale . . . we are becoming more and more vulnerable to this threat."
• Senator Richard Luger: "Nuclear, biological and chemical weapons are now more available to terrorists and rogue nations than at any other time in our history."
• Defense Secretary William Perry: "The proliferation of these horrific weapons presents a grave and urgent risk to the U.S. and our citizens, allies and troops abroad."
• "More fissile material is known to have been stolen from the former Soviet Union than the U.S. produced during the first three years of the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb during World War II."