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The Armageddon Test: Preventing Nuclear Terrorism
Mowatt-Larssen, Rolf
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September 2009, v65, #5, pp60-70
"9/11 exposed the asymmetric vulnerabilities of a highly interdependent global system; terrorism became a strategic threat to world order. In this light, obtaining one nuclear weapon represents an opportunity for terrorists to achieve their most ambitious aims—with a single attack, they can change the world and control the course of history."
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
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