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Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe - Hardcover

Allison, Graham T.

 
9780805076516: Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0805076514 ISBN 13: 9780805076516
Verlag: Times Books, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

A call to action on the threat of nuclear terrorism predicts that a catastrophic attack is likely to occur within the next decade if policy makers continue present tactics, and states that such an attack is preventable, offering recommendations for addressing national vulnerabilities. 40,000 first printing.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Graham Allison, founding dean of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government. He served as assistant secretary of defense for policy and plans and is the author of Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. He lives in Belmont, Massachusetts.


Graham Allison, founding dean of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government.

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From Nuclear Terrorism:
-Every day 30,000 trucks, 6,500 rail cars, and 140 ships deliver more than 50,000 cargo containers into the United States, but only 5 percent ever get screened. But even this screening, which rarely involves physical inspection, may not detect nuclear weapons or fissile material.

- There are approximately 130 nuclear research reactors in 40 countries. Two dozen of these
have enough highly enriched uranium for one or more nuclear bombs.

- If terrorists bought or stole a complete weapon, they could set it off immediately. If instead they bought fissile material, they could build a crude but working nuclear bomb within a year.

- In Russia, 10,000 nuclear warheads and fissile material for 30,000 additional weapons remain vulnerable to theft.

- Pakistan's black marketers, led by the country's leading nuclear scientist, A. Q. Khan, have sold comprehensive "nuclear starter kits" that included advanced centrifuge components, blueprints for nuclear warheads, uranium samples in quantities sufficient to make a small bomb, and even provided personal consulting services to assist nuclear development.

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Verlag
Times Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0805076514
ISBN 13 
9780805076516
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
263
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