Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project (NPPP)
Working Paper # 1
Protecting U.
S.
Nuclear Facilities from Terrorist Attack:
Re-assessing the Current “Design Basis Threat” Approach
by Lara Kirkham1
with Alan J.
Kuperman, Ph.
D.
Nuclear Proliferation...
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Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project (NPPP)
Working Paper # 1
Protecting U.
S.
Nuclear Facilities from Terrorist Attack:
Re-assessing the Current “Design Basis Threat” Approach
by Lara Kirkham1
with Alan J.
Kuperman, Ph.
D.
Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project
LBJ School of Public Affairs
University of Texas at Austin
www.
NPPP.
org
August 15, 2013
1
This working paper was researched and written primarily by Lara Kirkham, a
graduate research assistant at the NPPP, supplemented with editing and contributions by
Prof.
Alan J.
Kuperman, coordinator of the NPPP.
It was prepared as part of a larger
inter-disciplinary study at the University of Texas at Austin for the Office of the
Secretary of Defense, which provided financial support for the research.
The authors
thank Matthew Bunn of Harvard University and Alex Athey of the University of Texas at
Austin for their helpful comments on an earlier draft.
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