As New Report Warns of Rising Threat of Domestic Terrorism, What About the Nuclear Risks?
March 17, 2021
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As reported by the New York Times: President Biden requested the intelligence community complete the assessment shortly after taking office, and his administration has made fighting domestic terrorism a priority.

University of Chicago Professor Kathleen Belew has warned, on C-SPAN's "Q&A," that far right, white supremacist extremists and Neo-Nazis have threatened in the recent past to attack nuclear power plants in order to unleash catastrophic mass casualty events. See the C-SPAN "Q&A" interview with Belew, here.

Belew is referring to the domestic terrorist group, Atomwaffen Division. Atomwaffen means nuclear weapons in German. See the PBS Frontline special "Documenting Hate: New American Nazis," that aired on Nov. 20, 2018. It documents an apparently disrupted Atomwaffen Division plot to attack the Turkey Point nuclear power plant in southern Florida.

Article originally appeared on Beyond Nuclear (https://archive.beyondnuclear.org/).
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