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The Global Politics of Combating Nuclear Terrorism: A Supply-Side Approach book cover

1st Edition

The Global Politics of Combating Nuclear Terrorism A Supply-Side Approach

Edited By William C. Potter, Cristina Hansell Copyright 2010
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge
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The most difficult challenge for a terrorist organization seeking to build a nuclear weapon or improvised nuclear device is obtaining fissile material, either plutonium or highly enriched uranium (HEU). Experts acknowledge that obtaining HEU, uranium that has been processed to increase the proportion of the U-235 isotope to over 20%, is the most difficult challenge facing a state or non-state... Read more

1. Nuclear Terrorism and the Global Politics of Civilian HEU Elimination William C. Potter  2. Leveraging U.S. Policy for a Global Commitment to HEU Elimination Anya Loukianova and Cristina Hansell  3. Nuclear Medicine’s Double Hazard: Imperiled Treatment and the Risk of Terrorism Cristina Hansell  4. Phasing Out Civilian HEU in Russia: Opportunities and Challenges Elena K. Sokova  5. HEU Fuel Cycle Inventories and Progress on Global Minimization Ole Reistad and Styrkaar Hustveit  6. The Hard Cases: Eliminating Civilian HEU in Ukraine and Belarus William C. Potter and Robert Nurick  7. Practical Steps toward a World without Civilian HEU Cristina Hansell

Biography

William C. Potter is Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Cristina-Astrid Hansell is Director of the Newly Independent States Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

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