Controlling Threats To Nuclear Security: A Holistic Model

The Story

The collapse of the Soviet Union, although providing a host of welcome opportunities for people of that nation, also exacerbated a number of transnational concerns just as serious as those that emanated from the bipolar hostility of the previous 50 years. Among these challenges is the marked increase in the theft of and illegal trafficking in nuclear materials, often referred to as nuclear smuggling. Prior to the early 1990s, nuclear smuggling generally involved small quantities of bogus materials or, at most, nuclear-associated materials that posed no serious danger to security. Recently, however, several disturbing incidents involving kilogram quantities of sensitive nuclear materials suitable for constructing bombs have occurred. No one doubts that hostile groups could conceivably bring weapons-usable nuclear material into the United States. Moreover, nuclear smuggling represents a possible shortcut for states such as Iran seeking plutonium or highly enriched uranium for their weapons program. The consequences of such states succeeding would be profound.

A paperback edition from 1997 of Controlling Threats To Nuclear Security by James L. Ford; C. Richard Schuller; National Defense University Center for Counterproliferation Research. It runs to 129 pages, in very good condition. We hold one copy, so once it is gone it is gone. Shelved under Biography & Memoir. Wrapped with care for collectors and shipped from Kuwait.