101. After 9/11: Preventing Mass-Destruction Terrorism and Weapons Proliferation
- Author:
- Michael Barletta (ed.)
- Publication Date:
- 06-2002
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
- Abstract:
- The attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, is a watershed date in the history of the United States after the Cold War. Since 1989, policymakers, analysts, and historians have been unable to name the period of history the United States entered after 1989. The best that they could muster was “the post-Cold War period.” That short-lived era in U.S. history is now over. What we will name this period and how we will characterize it are not yet clear. But it will be a very different period for the United States and its role in the world.
- Topic:
- Cold War, National Security, Terrorism, and Counterinsurgency
- Political Geography:
- United States