Nuclear power and antiterrorism: obscuring the policy contradictions

Authors

Brian Martin, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

19601

Publication Details

Martin, B. (2007). Nuclear power and antiterrorism: obscuring the policy contradictions. Prometheus (Abingdon), 25 (1), 19-29.

Abstract

Some governments are promoting both nuclear power and antiterrorism, but without much attention to connections between the two issues. Nuclear power increases the risk of nuclear terrorism directly and via nuclear proliferation, but this is seldom mentioned by policy-makers. Governments use a set of rhetorical moves to hide the tensions in their policies concerning nuclear power and terrorism.