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Article: Report Says Lack of Focus on Threat of Nuclear Terrorism Stems From Failure to Grasp Global Economic Consequences of a Nuclear Terrorist Attack.(Report)
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- Bioterrorism Week
- Article date:
- August 11, 2008
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Nuclear terrorism, a stated top concern of both major-party presidential candidates, is garnering little attention as an issue because of a failure to focus on the global economic consequences of such an attack, according to a new report by the Saga Foundation released. The report, Nuclear Terrorism: Local Effects, Global Consequences, (available at www.sagafoundation.org) contends that a nuclear terrorist attack is the most serious threat to the U.S. homeland and the most likely nuclear attack scenario the nation faces. While the destructive effects of nuclear weapons have been studied in detail, the economic aftershocks likely to follow such an attack have received scant ...