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NO THREAT OF A LOOSE NUKE BEING DETONATED – BOMBS ARE
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| NO THREAT OF A LOOSE NUKE BEING DETONATED – BOMBS ARE OUTFITTED WITH SECURITY MEASURES John Mueller 2009 (Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Mershon Center Professor of Political Science, "The Atomic Terrorist" commissioned by the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Terrorism, April 30, http://www.icnnd.org/research/Mueller_Terrorism.pdf Even if a finished bomb were somehow lifted somewhere, the loss would soon be noted and a worldwide pursuit launched. And most bombs that could conceivably be stolen use plutonium which emits a great deal of radiation that could relatively easily be detected by sensors in the hands of pursuers Moreover, as technology has developed, finished bombs have been outfitted with devices that will trigger a nonnuclear explosion that will destroy the bomb if it is tampered with. And there are other security techniques bombs can be kept disassembled with the component parts stored in separate highsecurity vaults, and things can be organized so that two people and multiple codes are required not only to use the bomb, but to store, to maintain, and to deploy it. If the terrorists seek to enlist (or force) the services of someone who already knows how to set off the bomb, they would find, as Younger stresses, that only few people in the world have the knowledge to cause an unauthorized detonation of a nuclear weapon Weapons designers know how a weapon works, he explains, but not the multiple types of signals necessary to set it off, and maintenance personnel are trained only in a limited set of functions Download 1.23 Mb. Share with your friends:
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