Benjamin Schwartz
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“subsequently stated that al-Qaeda was working through the central Asian black market to acquire a nuclear weapon and/or fissile material.”
― Right of Boom: The Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism
― Right of Boom: The Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism
“diminution of US government capacity that it is difficult to even know where to begin. Admitting the limits of American power, particularly the “hard power” of the US military and intelligence community, is also not a popular pastime. A politician would need to be unusually brave to publicly focus on the day after an act of nuclear terrorism instead of the days before. Accepting nuclear terrorism is an unacceptable position, his opponents would surely retort.”
― Right of Boom: The Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism
― Right of Boom: The Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism
“INTRODUCTION THE EXPLOSION ON AN OTHERWISE CALM AND UNEVENTFUL MORNING, A small nuclear weapon explodes in downtown Washington, DC. The device generates a yield of fifteen kilotons, roughly the same force unleashed by the bomb Little Boy over Hiroshima. The casualty count rises to over a hundred thousand, and the destruction is measured in hundreds of billions of dollars. The blast’s electromagnetic pulse burns out electrical components across the metropolitan area. Radiation leaves the center of the city”
― Right of Boom: The Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism
― Right of Boom: The Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism
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