The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism
A new book from the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) warns that substandard security at nuclear facilities in Russia, Pakistan, and Central Asia increases the risk of terrorists seizing highly enriched uranium to make crude, but devastating, nuclear explosives. It urges the United States and its international partners to take immediate steps to prevent the most catastrophic forms of nuclear terrorism and to reduce the consequences of the most likely nuclear terror attacks.
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A new book from the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) warns that substandard security at nuclear facilities in Russia, Pakistan, and Central Asia increases the risk of terrorists seizing highly enriched uranium to make crude, but devastating, nuclear explosives. It urges the United States and its international partners to take immediate steps to prevent the most catastrophic forms of nuclear terrorism and to reduce the consequences of the most likely nuclear terror attacks.
Understanding
the Terrorism Threat
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Al-Qaeda Close to Acquiring "Dirty Bomb," Cables Say
Feb. 2, 2011
The terrorist organization al-Qaeda is coming close to possessing unconventional weapons as it pursues atomic matter and draws in sympathetic scientists to construct radiological "dirty bombs," the London Telegraph reported today (see GSN, Jan. 31).
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U.S. Nuclear Plant Security Concerns Persist
Jan. 5, 2011
Staged assaults of U.S. atomic energy plants by counterterrorism professionals in recent years have revealed security weaknesses that could be exploited by terrorists in an attack aimed at releasing stored radioactive material into the surrounding area, Newsweek magazine reported yesterday (see GSN, Oct. 5, 2010).
