The Ongoing Failure of Imagination
By Graham Allison | September 1, 2006
When the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001, so too did America’s
confidence that it was secure from calamitous acts of terrorism. Mindful that
terrorists might next seek to use nuclear weapons, the United States has
undertaken concerted efforts to secure loose nukes and bombmaking materials.
But, five years later, are we any safer? For an assessment, the
Bulletin sought the views of GRAHAM ALLISON (P.
36), author of Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable
Catastrophe, and WILLIAM M. ARKIN (P. 42), a security
analyst and online columnist for the Washington Post.
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Issue: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Volume 62 Issue 5
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Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard University where he has taught for five decades. Allison is a leading analyst... Read More
