For a week following the original PBS broadcast of "Dirty Bomb," Dr. Charles Ferguson, an expert on radiological and nuclear terrorism at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, answered questions e-mailed to NOVA concerning the dirty bomb threat. Below, we welcome you to peruse his considered and thought-provoking responses to a wide variety of questions. Please note: We are no longer accepting questions for this feature.
Responses
Q&As: 3/5/03
Q&As: 3/3/03
Q&As: 2/28/03
Q&As: 2/26/03
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Dr. Charles Ferguson is scientist-in-residence in the Washington, D.C. office of the
Center for Nonproliferation Studies. (CNS is part of the Monterey Institute of
International Studies, a graduate school based in Monterey, California.)
Ferguson's areas of expertise include radiological and nuclear terrorism, ballistic
missiles, strategic arms control, nuclear reactor safety, and loose nuclear materials.
He is coauthor, with Tahseen Kazi, and Judith Perera, of Commercial Radioactive
Sources: Surveying the Security Risks, a Monterey Institute Occasional Paper
available on the Web at www.cns.miis.edu/pubs/ opapers/op11/index.htm.
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