| Description |
202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,
0002-7162 ;
v. 607
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Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ; v. 607.
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| Note |
"September 2006." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
"The authors in this volume agree with these leaders' judgment: nuclear terrorism represents today's gravest national security challenge. In the pages that follow, fourteen scholars, scientists, and practitioners consider how best to confront and combat this danger. Their articles address this challenge from all azimuths: from the strategic to tactical, from the ideological to technical, and from the historical to contemporary" -- p.7 |
| Contents |
Preface / Graham Allison -- Assessing U.S. strategy in the War on Terror / Stephen Van Evera -- Curbing the demand for mass destruction / Charles B. Curtis -- Combating nuclear terrorism : addressing nonstate actor motivations / Bonnie Jenkins -- The race between cooperation and catastrophe : reducing the global nuclear threat / Sam Nunn -- Averting nuclear catastrophe : contemplating extreme responses to U.S. vulnerability / Robert L. Gallucci -- A nuclear response to nuclear terror : reflections of nuclear preemption / Andrei Kokoshin -- Russia : grasping the reality of nuclear terror / Simon Saradzhyan -- Proliferation on the penninsula : five North Korean nuclear crises / William J. Perry -- Intelligence estimates of nuclear terrorism / Micah Zenko -- A mathematical model of the risk of nuclear terrorism / Matthew Bunn -- Toward a comprehensive safeguards system : keeping fissile materials out of terrorists' hands / Siegfried S. Hecker -- Terrorist nuclear weapon construction : how difficult? / Matthew Bunn and Anthony Wier -- Denying Armageddon : preventing terrorist use of nuclear weapons / Michael V. Hynes , John E. Peters, and Joel Kvitky -- Flight of fancy / Graham Allison |
| Subject |
Nuclear terrorism -- Prevention.
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Nuclear terrorism -- Prevention. |
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Nuclear terrorism. |
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Nuclear terrorism -- United States -- Prevention.
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United States. |
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
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War on Terrorism (2001-2009) |
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Nuclear nonproliferation.
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Nuclear nonproliferation. |
| Added Author |
Allison, Graham T.
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American Academy of Political and Social Science.
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| ISBN |
1412950929 paperback |
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1412950910 cloth |
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