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Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?
According to a British intelligence report leaked to the press in 2007, al Qaeda operatives are planning a large-scale attack “on par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” But just how likely is such an attack? Offering insights into vital questions of national security, presidential decisionmaking, and terrorist motives, world-renowned terrorism expert Brian Michael Jenkins examines how terrorists think about nuclear weapons and nuclear terror.
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