Global Risk of Nuclear Terrorism
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The risk of nuclear terrorism
Over the last few years I wrote several papers, and made many presentations, on the risk of nuclear terrorism [1-10]. The present text, written at the request of the organizers of three recent conferences to which I participated (the USPID International Conference in Castiglioncello, Italy, 1821 September 2003; the XV Amaldi International Conference in Helsinki, Finland, 25-27 September 2003; t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Strategic Security
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1944-0464,1944-0472
DOI: 10.5038/1944-0472.3.1.2