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NUCLEAR TERRORISM

H.E. Sheikh Abalkhail

March 31, 2003

A War Played to Many Audiences

Op-Ed, Boston Globe

By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School and H.E. Sheikh Abalkhail, International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

THE IRAQ SPECTACLE now running 24/7 is simultaneously war and theater. In both arenas, it is in General Tommy Franks's words 'a campaign unlike any other in history. For secondary audiences of this ultimate in reality TV, the swirl of images and finely spun words has been confusing, and sometimes misleading.

Hassan Abbas

Summer 2007

Pakistan: Instability Raises Nuclear Security Concerns

Summary Report, Oxford Analytica

By Hassan Abbas, Senior Advisor, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Managing the Atom Fellow Hassan Abbas provides analysis of Pakistan’s nuclear command and control systems and the security of its nuclear program in the aftermath of the recent test-firing of a nuclear-capable missile and terrorist attack.

February 1, 2007

Asfandyar Wali: Profile of Pakistan's Progressive Pashtun Politician

Magazine or Newspaper Article, Terrorism Monitor, issue 2, volume V

By Hassan Abbas, Senior Advisor, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

November 28, 2006

Pakistan's Chitral District: A Refuge for al-Qaeda's Top Leadership?

Magazine or Newspaper Article, Terrorism Focus, issue 46, volume III

By Hassan Abbas, Senior Advisor, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

October 31, 2006

Musharraf Contends with the Pashtun Element in the Pakistani Army

Magazine or Newspaper Article, Terrorism Focus, issue 42, volume III

By Hassan Abbas, Senior Advisor, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

October 19, 2006

Profiles of Pakistan's Seven Tribal Agencies

Magazine or Newspaper Article, Terrorism Monitor, In-Depth Analysis of al-Qaeda and the War on Terror, issue 20, volume IV

By Hassan Abbas, Senior Advisor, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

November 2005

"A Failure to Communicate: American Public Diplomacy and the Islamic World"

Book Chapter

By Hassan Abbas, Senior Advisor, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Max Abrahms

Summer 2007

"Correspondence: Does Terrorism Ever Work? The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings"

Journal Article, International Security, issue 1, volume 32

By William Rose, Rysia Murphy and Max Abrahms, Former Research Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

William Rose and Rysia Murphy reply to Max Abrahms's fall 2006 International Security article, "Why Terrorism Does Not Work."

Fall 2006

"Why Terrorism Does Not Work"

Journal Article, International Security, issue 2, volume 31

By Max Abrahms, Former Research Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Terrorism may be a choice method of political coercion at the moment, but this study finds that it is not very successful. Terrorists who attack civilian populations rather than military targets fail to achieve their policy objectives, because countries whose populations are victims of massive terrorist violence are highly unlikely to negotiate, let alone make political concessions, with terrorists whose actions imply that they will not compromise.

Hussein Agha

January, 2004

Track-II Diplomacy: Lessons from the Middle East

Book

By Shai Feldman, Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Ahmad Khalidi, Zeev Schiff and Hussein Agha

Track-II talks in the Middle East -- unofficial discussions among Israeli and Arab scholars, journalists, and former government and military officials -- have been going on since soon after the 1967 Six Day War and have often paved the way for official negotiations. This book, a unique collaboration of Israeli and Palestinian authors, traces the history of these unofficial meetings, focusing on those that took place in the 1990s beginning just after the Gulf War.

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Securing the Bomb 2008

Securing the Bomb 2008

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Project on Managing the Atom Co-Principal Investigator Matthew Bunn provides a comprehensive assessment of efforts to secure and remove vulnerable nuclear stockpiles around the world, and a detailed action plan for reducing the risk of nuclear terrorism. Securing the Bomb 2008 was commissioned by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI). The full report, with additional information on the threat of nuclear terrorism, is available on the NTI website.

International Security

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The Summer 2009 issue of the quarterly journal International Security is now available. It includes articles by Matthew Fuhrmann, Elizabeth Stanley, Daniel Lake, Christopher Layne, and more.

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Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe

Graham Allison, founding dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, a former top official at the Pentagon, and one of America’s leading scholars of nuclear strategy and national security, presents the evidence and argument that led him to two provocative conclusions: a nuclear terrorist attack on an American city is inevitable on our current course and speed, but preventable if we act now.

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Managing the Atom

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Speaking about the Unspeakable: U.S.-Israeli Dialogue on Iran's Nuclear Program

Despite the longstanding and ever-evolving "special relationship" between the United States and Israel, the two allies do not appear to have engaged in substantive discussions on key facets of their most pressing mutual concern, the Iranian nuclear threat. Specifically, there has been little if any dialogue on the possibility of military action if the diplomatic route comes to a dead end, nor on the possible means of living with a nuclear Iran should both countries decide to refrain from military action.