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Toward a Comprehensive Safeguards System: Keeping Fissile Materials out of Terrorists' Hands

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  • Siegfried S. Hecker

    (Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University,Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Abstract

The nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is today’s greatest security concern. The importance of keeping fissile materials out of the hands of terrorists is now generally accepted. The difficulty of doing so is not. Lack of appreciation, especially for the technical difficulties, is hampering our ability to build a comprehensive safeguards system and prevent nuclear terrorism.

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  • Siegfried S. Hecker, 2006. "Toward a Comprehensive Safeguards System: Keeping Fissile Materials out of Terrorists' Hands," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 607(1), pages 121-132, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:607:y:2006:i:1:p:121-132
    DOI: 10.1177/0002716206290273
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