In showing some concern over the capture of

with the availability of the required expertise, to use it separately or in combination with other materials in its terrorist acts.” In
showing some concern over the capture of radioactive materials, the U.S. State Department in September 2014 said that it had
signed an agreement with the Baghdad government to step up joint efforts to detect and recover sensitive nuclear materials around
the country before ISIS could get to the supplies. “Obtaining radiological material from places like universities or hospitals is relatively
easy if you have the firepower, a chaotic situation and jihadists willing to sacrifice their health handling it,” Ryan Mauro of The Clarion
Project told Fox News at the time. Similarly Matthew Bunn, a professor with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at
Harvard University, told Fox News that the purpose of such a weapon is to terrorize a population and the threat of its use is sufficient
for ISIS to accomplish its goal. “The intent of a dirty bomb is to cause panic with the fear of the radioactivity,” he said. “But that may
be more difficult to do if governments can quickly confirm that the amount of radioactivity involved is not a threat to anybody (even
though) that in itself is problematic when there’s so much distrust on the subject of radiation risks.” The letter to the U.N. came a day
after Iraqi officials had confirmed that ISIS also had taken control of a disused chemical weapons factory which was said to house
expended artillery shells with residue of the poison gas, Sarin. In talking about ISIS’ latest claim of having sufficient radioactive and
biological weapons stockpiles, Australia’s foreign minister, Bishop, told The Australian that such information is “worrying” to NATO
and other members of the Australian Group . It’s been almost a year since ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced creation of
the Islamic State which is subject to an extreme interpretation of Shariah law. The conquered territory includes portions of north and
northeastern Syria and much of the Sunni-dominated western regions of Iraq
US uniquely key to ISIS threat-Need to cooperate with NATO
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(Angelo M. Codevilla is a fellow of the Claremont Institute, professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University and the
author of To Make And Keep Peace, Hoover Institution Press, 2014. If You Want To Stop ISIS, Here Is What It Will Take)
The Islamic State’ video-dissemination of one of its goons beheading an American is an existential challenge from which we cannot
afford to shrink. Until the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) did that, it made sense for the U.S. government to help contain it because the
Islamic world, which the IS threatens most directly, must destroy it sooner or later. But internetting that beheading was a gory
declaration of America’s impotence—a dare-by-deed that is sure to move countless young persons around the globe to get in on killing
us, anywhere they can. The longer the Islamic State survives, the more will take up its dare. Either we kill the IS, or we will deserve
the wave of terrorism that will engulf us.