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The proliferation of nuclear weapons, particularly to terrorists, is commonly held to be the single most serious threat to the national security of the United States. Assessed in appropriate context, that could actually be seen to be a rather cheering conclusion. The likelihood a terrorist group will come up with a nuclear weapons seems to be vanishingly small. However, the obsessive quest to control nuclear proliferation particularly since the end of the Cold War has enhanced the appeal of or desperate desire for nuclear weapons for some regimes. In addition, the quest has been a necessary cause of far more deaths than have been inflicted by all nuclear or even all "weapons of mass destruction" detonations in all of history. |
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Name: American Political Science Association
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| Mueller, John. "Reactions and Overreactions to Terrorism: The Atomic Obsession" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-09 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209163_index.html> |
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| Mueller, J. , 2007-08-30 "Reactions and Overreactions to Terrorism: The Atomic Obsession" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2011-06-09 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209163_index.html |
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Abstract: The proliferation of nuclear weapons, particularly to terrorists, is commonly held to be the single most serious threat to the national security of the United States. Assessed in appropriate context, that could actually be seen to be a rather cheering conclusion. The likelihood a terrorist group will come up with a nuclear weapons seems to be vanishingly small. However, the obsessive quest to control nuclear proliferation particularly since the end of the Cold War has enhanced the appeal of or desperate desire for nuclear weapons for some regimes. In addition, the quest has been a necessary cause of far more deaths than have been inflicted by all nuclear or even all "weapons of mass destruction" detonations in all of history. |
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| REACTIONS AND OVERREACTIONS TO TERRORISM: THE ATOMIC OBSESSION John Mueller Department of Political Science Ohio State University July 24 2007 Mershon Center 1501 Neil Avenue Columbus OH 43201-2602 614-247-6007 614-292-2407 (fax) bbbb@osu.edu http://polisci.osu.edu/faculty/jmueller Prepared for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association Chicago Illinois August 31-September 3 2007. Copyright by the American Political Science Association. ABSTRACT The proliferation of nuclear weapons particularly to terrorists is commonly held to be the single most serious threat to |
| long time no see. Say I'm a terrorist now and I was wondering: How do you go about building a nuclear bomb?'" After three days without progress the plutonium once a source of pride for Akhtar and the other men has increasingly become a fountain of frustration. "I guess we got carried away with the idea of making a nuclear weapon before thinking the whole thing through " said Akhtar who admitted that even if he "could bombard that |
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