Graham Allison

Graham Allison is director of the Belfer Center
for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's John F.
Kennedy School of Government. He is author of Nuclear
Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe (2004). This article
draws upon and updates arguments published in Nuclear Terrorism
and related publications by the author. For help preparing this
essay, the author expresses special appreciation to Angelina
Clarke.

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Articles by Graham Allison

1 September 2006
Feature

The Ongoing Failure of Imagination

Graham Allison
When the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001, so too did America's confidence that it was secure from calamitous acts of terrorism. Mindful that terrorists might next seek to use nuclear weapons, the United States has