Senate Examining Intelligence on Nuclear Terror

By David Morgan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate has begun taking a harder look at U.S. intelligence on nuclear threats facing the United States, including revelations of missing nuclear materials in Russia, congressional officials said on Friday.

The Republican-led Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which held a closed-door hearing on nuclear issues earlier this month, has come to view nuclear proliferation as a threat that overshadows other dangers posed by terrorist groups.

"We're going to be following it very, very closely," said Sen. John Rockefeller of West Virginia, ranking Democrat on the Senate oversight panel.

He said the nuclear threat against the United States was posed "not just from North Korea, but most dangerously from unaccounted for weapons that could be black-marketed to terrorists." <snip>

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=7678752

stuff like months and months ago?

since July. What did the Nunn-Lugar bill(?) say?