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For three decades, arms control treaties
have provided a legal basis for limit-ing and reducing long-range
nuclear weapons. However, thousands of sub-strategic, or tactical,
nuclear weapons (TNWs) are not monitored or con-trolled by any
existing treaties or formal agreements, even though they can pose
security risks equal to or exceeding those of strategic nuclear
weapons. As the world has seen, the rise of international terrorism
highlights the poten-tial dangers of tactical nuclear weapons.
Because they can be relatively small and portable—particularly but
not exclusively in the case of so-called “suitcase” bombs—tactical
nuclear weapons are easier to transport and more vul-nerable to
theft than other nuclear weapons. In terrorists’ hands, they would
wreak havoc far surpassing the devastation of September 11.
According to the Department of Defense, terrorists would most
likely use a nuclear weapon against either a military installation
or a political target (a seat of government, large population
center, or commercial port city). This possibility raises the
stakes in the international effort to control and reduce TNWs.
Despite the critical need for a more informed debate on the issues
involv-ing tactical nuclear weapons, little has been published
previously on this subject. To bring more attention to this
long-ignored danger, Brian Alexander and Alistair Millar have
assembled a cadre of ten experts who frame the debate on a
multitude of issues ranging from terrorism and arms control to the
weapons programs of Russia, India, Pakistan, and China.
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