Nuclear terrorism after 9 11:
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 h...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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.--Publisher description. |
| Beschreibung: | 88 S. |
| ISBN: | 0415399920 |
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Contents
Introduction 7
Chapter One The Nuclear Black Market 11
'Loose' Russian tactical nuclear weapons 17
Chapter Two Improvised Nuclear Devices 25
Amateur and 'low end' weapon design 31
Chapter Three Terrorist Psychology, Motivation and Strategy 41
Terrorist psychologies 42
Motivations and constraints 45
Is al Qaeda a nuclear threat? 55
Chapter Four Terrorism and Nuclear Deterrence 63
Conclusion 69
Appendix Dirty Bombs: Radiological Dispersal
and Emission Devices 75
Notes 79 |
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Contents
Introduction 7
Chapter One The Nuclear Black Market 11
'Loose' Russian tactical nuclear weapons 17
Chapter Two Improvised Nuclear Devices 25
Amateur and 'low end' weapon design 31
Chapter Three Terrorist Psychology, Motivation and Strategy 41
Terrorist psychologies 42
Motivations and constraints 45
Is al Qaeda a nuclear threat? 55
Chapter Four Terrorism and Nuclear Deterrence 63
Conclusion 69
Appendix Dirty Bombs: Radiological Dispersal
and Emission Devices 75
Notes 79 |
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