livermore lab needed a mock terrorist were coming livermore lab knew almost a year in advance and knew to within two hours of when the mock terrorists would arrive. and yet the mob terrorists were able to carry out their to mean a jap to the terrorists came in the would be mock terrorist came in and succeeded at some things that we didn't really want them to succeed at. in spite of some of the precautions that. it had been. their first job was to get access to livermore labs to tonio and to hold their ground long enough to create an improvised nuclear device which is a not just a dirty bomb but an actual crude nuclear bomb their second to objectives that they also were able to carry out was to steal and they were using simulated plutonium but essentially they were in the superblock in the building if they had been real terrorists it would have been the real deal they were able to steal the plutonium and take it off site get off site with it so that they could detonate a bomb at a later time and place of they are choosing. latest news story. executed by the government's true. breaking p

the fbi chart was based on the night hours in only one lab. but our research shows it was not unusual for ivins to work late at the other labs and offices throughout the army complex. and during those days the fbi found suspicious, ivins was, in fact, conducting a number of time-sensitive experiments in the lab. >> he was in the middle of a very important vaccine test experiment. he had a series of animals that had been vaccinated, and so he was in there checking his animals. >> narrator: and many of ivin's colleagues say that even that many hours in the lab wouldn't have given him enough time to produce the anthrax. >> the fbi insinuated that bruce did this in a week in the laboratory at nights. and we all knew that that wasn't, in fact, reasonable, it wasn't practical. and, given the limitations of the laboratory, just wasn't possible in that timeframe. >> narrator: ivins' colleagues also insist it would have been impossible for him to produce the powder unnoticed. >> people notice things that are unusual in the suites. they find out what's

this is the pentagon's main lab for studying biological weapons, for detecting vaccines.is an expert on anthrax and in fact he's supposedly helping federal agents. >> in january of 2002, he's in the thick of it. >> what the feds do not see is the hidden side of bruce ivans, e-mails where he says i've been eaten alive by paranoid delusional thoughts. >> bruce ivans led a double life. >> psychiatrists will later describe ivans as a secretive, paranoid, resentful, and rage-filled man. >> he's a guy who had a definite dark side to him that no one else knew about. >> i met bruce in chapel hill, north carolina. >> it was the mid '70s, nancy haigwood was a graduate student at the university of north carolina. bruce ivan was there too. ivans asked incessantly about her sorority, kappa kappa gamma. he seems obsessed. >> every time i talked to him, he mentioned it. i said, bruce, that's enough. >> as their careers took shape over the years, ivans kept in touch. shortly after the anthrax attacks, wille e-mails these photos of himself with what he calls the now infamous strain o amth

with terrifying implications. >> the aim strain was a lab strain. it was not out there in the wild. >> david willman, a pulitzer prize winning investigative reporter, is the author of a recent book on the anthrax attacks. >> the fact that this is a laboratory strain told them this is a bioterrorism event. >> a week later anthrax-filled litters start showing up at major news organizations in new york. >> anthrax. another infection. this time at nbc news in rockefeller plaza. >> the attack letters have a chilling message. death to america. death to israel. allah is great. >> i was a postal inspector team leader during the case. >> former u.s. postal inspector thomas delifara helped lead the investigate from the early days. i just want to ask for your instant reaction at the time. >> initial reaction, looks like another al qaeda event. it's a follow on attack. initially that's kind of where my head was. >> three days after the nbc letter, capitol hill. >> the letter is addressed to senate majority leader tom daschle. it's opened. the white powder spill

services, including the possibility of an independent crime lab. the legislation follows efforts of proposed more than a year ago to shift responsibility for providing services from the police department to the city administrative just in the same ways that the medical examiner is currently looking at the city administrator now and to study the creation of an independent crime lab within the municipality of san francisco. as part of that ordinance, i requested the controller to investigate further, but at the time, the those investments had been suspended because of the wave of scandals caused by one lab technician, which had induced the district attorney to dismiss more than 500 cases. outside auditors found that other problems having to do with the crime lab, along with the district attorney, the public defender, and even the police department that we should at least explore the possibility of an independent crime lab or be able to examine the pros and cons. since then, a decent amount of time has passed. meanwhile, several other u.s. cities and

>> this was something that could be taken out of a lab. put in an envelope, dropped in a mailbox, and people would die. >> robert stevens is the first to die. >> you know, it doesn't say natural causes or accident on my husband's death certificate. it says homicide. >> originally from england, in the '70s, stevens and his wife maureen had moved to florida. he worked for american media incorporated. a tabloid publisher. >> there's no one that can say they didn't like him. he was just full of life and he loved everybody. >> in early october 2001, stevens has what seems like the flu. two days later, slurred speech. and a trip to the hospital. >> she said, it's anthrax. now, i'm getting shivers thinking about it. and she said, "the cdc had been informed, the fbi, and the president has been informed." and i was in shock. >> robert stevens dies the next day. anthrax had shut down his vital organs. >> he was just the perfect person for me and i do miss him. you know, my heart's still not in one piece yet. >> lab work reveals the type of anthrax t

why do we have a crime lab that belongs to the police? san francisco should have an independent crime lab that is headed by scientists. the uno a police officer that is smarter than a scientist? there are some, but not too many. their focus should be on law enforcement, not science. we have a problem having an independent judiciary. in-house they are in there sniffing cocaine into stealing cocaine, we need to get rid of that. it needs to be independent and we have to deal with this year. >> he actually trained me, and when i took over his job, the memo that he wrote was to test to examine the procedures that are used to the late ray and the murder dna. as we're talking about here about brady, there is no confidentiality exception. as b.a., i would not be covering it up, i would be fixing it. we need to fix it up, not a cover-up solution. that entire lives could be called into question. i hope that doesn't happen, but is much more than handing it over to the defense attorneys. they determine whether or not a live is accredited. that was th

the entire resources of the los alamos lab and the other labs and then feed it to domenici from within his office. it's a lot of power. right now you've got some people whose purpose whose whose sole centered interest is to maintain nuclear weapons as a viable option. that is their own selfish interest even though you and i would say that if there's if there's any weapon on earth right now that puts her our society or risk it's nuclear weapons because they can bring our six sided crashing down one morning at the end of the cold war there was a hope that at least a core part of the nuclear threat could be reduced maybe eliminated namely the soviet american confrontation with the very dissolution of the soviet union u.s. leaders saw an opportunity not to change the world in the direction of nuclear abolition which they could and which you know many americans saw that as a possibility instead of doing that they saw the possibility of being a hedge of money world empires such as the world had never seen. the issue of nuclear weapons is kind of dropped off the public radar and a lot of ways