1. The Nuclear Terrorism Threat: How Real Is It?
- Author:
- Michael Brian Jenkins and John Lauder
- Publication Date:
- 09-2016
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Nonproliferation Policy Education Center
- Abstract:
- After the Cold War and nearly 70 years of waging war against communism, the United States and its key allies have adopted the war against terror as their new organizing principal. The king of terrorist threats, however, is nuclear terrorism. As Vice President Dick Cheney once argued, “if there is a one percent chance” of a terrorist developing a nuclear weapon, “we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.”1
- Topic:
- Nuclear Weapons, Terrorism, and International Security
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus