Rogue Nuclear Terrorism: Alleviating French Concerns
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Washington, April 2010: a summit on the possibility of nuclear terrorism, attended by 38 heads of state. Result: a joint commitment to improve nuclear security, and a marked sense that nuclear terrorism - even in dirty bomb form - was now a credible threat. An editorial in Le Monde a few days later laid out wider concerns around the current nuclear security structure.
The existing threat
While accepting that, for a terrorist group, bootstrapping a full nuclear device is almost impossi...
