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Harvard University Press
December 2007
On Sale: November 30, 2007
224 pages
ISBN: 0674026497
EAN: 9780674026490
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Nuclear terrorism is such a disturbing prospect that we shy
away from its details. Yet as a consequence, we fail to
understand how best to defeat it. Michael Levi takes us
inside nuclear terrorism and behind the decisions a
terrorist leader would be faced with in pursuing a nuclear
plot. Along the way, Levi identifies the many obstacles,
large and small, that such a terrorist scheme might
encounter, allowing him to discover a host of ways that any
plan might be foiled. Surveying the broad universe
of plots and defenses, this accessible account shows how a
wide-ranging defense that integrates the tools of weapon and
materials security, law enforcement, intelligence, border
controls, diplomacy, and the military can multiply,
intensify, and compound the possibility that nuclear
terrorists will fail. Levi draws from our long experience
with terrorism and cautions us not to focus solely on the
most harrowing yet most improbable threats. Nuclear
terrorism shares much in common with other terrorist
threats--and as a result, he argues, defeating it is
impossible unless we put our entire counterterrorism and
homeland security house in order. As long as we live
in a nuclear age, no defense can completely eliminate
nuclear terrorism. But this book reminds us that the right
strategy can minimize the risks and shows us how to do it.
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