Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy: Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material

by Graham T. Allison, Richard A. Falkenrath, Owen R. Coté Jr.

Book Overview

This study by Graham Allison and three colleagues at Harvard's Center for Science and International Affairs warns that containing the leakage of nuclear materials--and keeping them out of the hands of groups hostile to the United States--is our nation's highest security priority. What if the bomb that exploded in Oklahoma City or New York's World Trade Center had used 100 pounds of highly enriched uranium? The destruction would have been far more...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026251088X
• ISBN13: 9780262510882
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher