Defusing Armageddon : inside NEST, America's secret nuclear bomb squad
"Shortly after 9 /11, the United States received reports that Al-Qaeda had acquired a Russian nuclear weapon and intended to detonate it in New York. That scare was not the first time U.S. officials had faced such a grave threat." "Defusing Armageddon begins in the mid-twentieth century, when the U.S. Intelligence Community developed serious concerns that the Soviet Union might smuggle a nuclear weapon into the United States. It then shows how other events over several decades - from airborne disasters that resulted in the loss of American nuclear bombs to the spread of international terrorism, to the threats of nuclear extortionists - led to the creation of a secret team of scientists and technicians in 1974, ordered to respond to any and all nuclear threats against America."
Print Book, English, ©2009
1st ed
W.W. Norton, New York, ©2009