(Council on Foreign Relations/New York Times) Graham Allison - President Bush has singled out terrorist nuclear attacks on the U.S. as the defining threat the nation will face in the foreseeable future. Nuclear terrorism is preventable. Without fissile material, you can't have a nuclear bomb. Fissile material can be kept out of the wrong hands. The technology for doing so already exists. The solution would be to apply a new doctrine of "Three No's": no loose nukes, no new nascent nukes, and no new nuclear states. The writer, a former assistant secretary of defense for policy and plans (1993-94), is Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
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