Joseph Cirincione, Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008)

摘要

Rising fuel costs and growing concern about global warming have occasioned renewed interest in nuclear power as an alternative energy source giving rise to the so-called 'nuclear renaissance'. One possible consequence of this trend, though, is the potential for the diversion of fissile material into the custody of a rogue state or terrorist group. In fact, on the eve of the Nuclear Security Summit in April 2010, US President Barack Obama announced that the prospect of nuclear terrorism was the greatest national security threat to the United States. In his book, Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons, Joseph Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund (a public foundation that supports nonproliferation) and a professor at Georgetown University, provides a primer on the history of the world's most destructive weapon and speculates on its future.