The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism (Paperback)

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""The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism is the best--the most informative, the clearest, the most authoritative, the soberest--of all the books on its subject. It will be indispensable to anyone who wishes to weigh the dreadful dangers it describes."
-Jonathan Schell
"There is no failure of imagination here; this volume brims with it."
-The Washington Post
"Ferguson and Potter have made the unthinkable thinkable! Both laymen and experts will find this finely crafted, clearly written volume an invaluable resource for understanding the security issue of our time... Those in Washington charged with protecting our nation in the post-9/11 world will do well to heed both the sense of urgency and the practical measures these veteran researchers compellingly present within these covers."
-Stephen E. Flynn, Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, and author of "America the Vulnerable
"There is no greater threat the nation faces than the combination of terrorists and nuclear arms. This meticulous study, by five leading experts, provides a full overview of the challenges we face, and points to actions that must be taken. No student of these issues can afford to miss reading this volume."
-Amitai Etzioni, author of "From Empire to Community: A New Approach to International Relations
"To understand the risks and the practical steps we can take to prevent the ultimate catastrophe, there is no better place to start than The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism. I recommend it to my students and to my colleagues; I recommend it to you. If our political leaders simply followed the recommendations in this study, we could reduce the risk of nuclearterrorism to near zero."
-Joseph Cirincione, Director for Nonproliferation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace


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"The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism", a new book from the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, assesses the motivations and capabilities of terrorist organizations to acquire and use nuclear weapons, to fabricate and detonate crude nuclear explosives, to strike nuclear power plants and other nuclear facilities, and to build and employ radiological weapons or dirty bombs. The authors maintain that there is a greater likelihood today than any time in the past three decades that nuclear weapons will actually be used. This stark assessment is based upon two premises: 1) Non-state actors have emerged who seek nuclear weapons in order to use them and 2) Crude but real nuclear weapons, as distinct from radiological dispersal devices, are well within the technical reach of some terrorist organizations. The authors urge 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. Priority tasks include securing and reducing tactical nuclear weapons in Russia; securing, consolidating, and eliminating highly enriched uranium globally; and providing for secure storage and disposal of radioactive materials used in medicine, scientific research, and industry. The book also stresses the need to educate the public on the real risks of radiation exposure and radioactive contamination to help psychologically immunize citizens against fear of radiological attacks, which the authors conclude are all but inevitable in the coming years.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent and balanced account, 6 Aug 2007 By  S. Ellingsen "implosion device" (London) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)    This is an excellent and well balanced account of the threat of nuclear terrorism. Ferguson and Potter (with helpers) go through in some detail what you need to know about the four different forms of terrorism they define to belong under the "nuclear" umbrella: radiological dispersion weapons (of which "dirty bombs" is one example), sabotage of a nuclear powerplant, nuclear weapons stolen or otherwise acquired from a state arsenal and finally home-built nuclear weapons. Having read most of the available literature on nuclear terrorism, I find this book amongst the most useful literature there is. It isn't overly technical, and contains thousands of refererences to sources and further reading for the curious interested. "The Four Faces ..." thus serves as an important counterweight to the often sensationalist accounts of nuclear terrorism. Unless you are a researcher, you don't really need much more than this book on the subject. A minor catch might be that the book is a tad dry and scholarly, yet given some previous interest in the subject, it reads very easily. Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this) Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review › See all customer reviews...		Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews

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