Nuclear terrorism: what can we learn from Los Alamos?

The international security community is increasingly concerned about the nexus between indiscriminate terrorism and the proliferation of nuclear technology and materials. Many nuclear terrorism threat assessments focus primarily on terrorist motivations to employ an atomic bomb, the availability of...

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Main Author: Volders, Brecht (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: Terrorism and political violence
Year: 2019, Volume: 31, Issue: 5, Pages: 1006-1025
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Keywords:
nuclear terrorism
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Terrorism
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