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Nuclear Terrorism after 9/11 (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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Nuclear Terrorism after 9/11 (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
Series: Adelphi series
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The very mention of nuclear terrorism is enough to rouse strong
emotions, and understandably so, because it combines the most
terrifying weapons and the scariest people in a single phrase. The
possibility that terrorists could use nuclear weapons deserves the
best possible analysis, but discussion has all too often has been
contaminated with exaggeration, even hysteria, that flows in at
least some cases from the political interests commentators have in
exaggerating the terrorist threat. For example, it has been claimed
that nuclear terrorism poses an "existential threat" to the United
States.
This "Adelphi Paper "develops a more measured analysis of the risk
of nuclear terrorism, defined here as the detonation by terrorists
of a device with a true nuclear yield. It attacks the problem from
two angles: the very considerable, possibly insurmountable
technical challenges involved in getting a functional nuclear
weapon, whether "home-made" or begged, borrowed, or stolen from a
state arsenal, and the related question of the strategic,
political, and psychological motivation to "go nuclear." It
concludes, with some other writers, that nuclear terrorism is not a
significant threat, and that, among terrorists, Muslim extremists
are not the most likely to go use nuclear weapons.
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