His Financial Backers and Political Patrons in the US and Abroad
Edición de la obra The Nuclear Terrorist
| Autor | Robert Gleason |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Forge Books |
| Fecha de publicación | Apr 08, 2014 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 336 |
| Formato | hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9780765338129 |
| ISBN-10 | 0765338122 |
| OCLC | 875554554 |
| LCCN | 2014010788 |
| Número de Cutter | G554n |
"The threat of nuclear terrorism has never been greater, yet, as this devastating exposé makes clear, America's leaders, including the last two Presidential administrations, have been shockingly lax and often chillingly reckless when it comes to protecting the United States--and the world--from the spreading threat of nuclear proliferation and the very real possibility that terrorists will stage a nuclear bombing or meltdown on American soil . . . with catastrophic results. Taking no prisoners, The Nuclear Terrorist demonstrates how time and again both the Bush and Obama administrations have placed politics and profiteering over public safety; how the government has failed to effectively guard and regulate a "peaceful" nuclear industry that is both cataclysmically expensive and apocalyptically dangerous; how America's nuclear power plants remain vulnerable to both physical and cyber attacks; and how our elected leaders and their advisors continue to do business with rogue states, untrustworthy and unstable "allies," and terrorist backers, while turning a blind eye to the all-but-inevitable consequences of such deals with the devil"--