NUCLEAR ISSUES
Before The Morning After
Journal Article, Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
In April of 1995, home-grown American terrorists parked a rented Ryder truck packed with fertilizer-based explosives outside the Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City.1 As noted at trial, their objective was to deliver the weapons during a period in which they might get a high body-count.2 They succeeded in killing 168 American men, women and children.3 Two years earlier, Sheik Rahman, an Egyptian Islamic cleric, and his collaborators rented a minivan, packed it with fertilizer-based explosives and parked it in the basement of the World Trade Center.4 They anticipated that the resulting blast would cause one World Trade Center tower to fall on the other.5 The trial revealed that their ultimate targets were not just the World Trade Center, but also the United Nations building, the Federal Office Building in lower Manhattan, the George Washington Bridge and the Lincoln and Holland [*pg 8] tunnels.6 They hoped to kill a large number of Americans. If they had parked their minivan in the right place, they could have killed forty thousand people.
"Assistance to Newly Proliferating Nations"
Book Chapter
By Steven E. Miller, Director, International Security Program; Editor-in-Chief, International Security; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
2006
Making America Safer from Nuclear Terrorism
Book Chapter
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
Chap. 1 in How to Make America Safe. Cambridge, MA: Tobin Project, 2006.
Arms Control for New Nuclear Nations
Book Chapter
By Steven Flank, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 1991-1993 and Paul Doty, Director Emeritus, Center for Science and International Affairs; Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry, Emeritus
The New Hegemon
Magazine or Newspaper Article, The New Republic, issue 4,796
By Vali Nasr, Senior Fellow, Dubai Initiative
As the war in Iraq has depleted U.S. power and prestige in the Middle East, Iran has seized the opportunity to wield greater influence, and its nuclear gambit has only increased its confidence. Yet Washington continues to misread Iran as just another rogue state. Three new states offer an analysis of Iran as it truly is.
Diplomatic Measures
Book Chapter
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
New Nuclear Nations: Consequences for U.S. Policy
Book
By Albert Carnesale, Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Ambassador Robert D. Blackwill, International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
