On Nuclear Terrorism

Informationen zum Autor Michael Levi is David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York. Klappentext Levi takes us inside nuclear terrorism and behind the decisions a terrorist leader would confront in pursuing a nuclear plot. He shows how a defense integrating weapon and materials security, law enforcement, intelligence, border controls, diplomacy, and the military can compound the possibility that nuclear terrorists will fail. Zusammenfassung Levi takes us inside nuclear terrorism and behind the decisions a terrorist leader would confront in pursuing a nuclear plot. He shows how a defense integrating weapon and materials security! law enforcement! intelligence! border controls! diplomacy! and the military can compound the possibility that nuclear terrorists will fail. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface List of Abbreviations Prologue 1. Principles for Defense 2. Security at the Source 3. Building Blocks 4. The Beginnings of a True System 5. Warning 6. A Wider Universe of Nuclear Plots and Defenses 7. The Way Forward Appendix: Radiation Detection and Weapons Effects Calculations Glossary Notes Acknowledgments Index

Product details

• Authors: Michael Levi, Michael A. Levi
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.04.2009
• EAN: 9780674032385
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03238-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education