The enduring imperative of nuclear security

• Autores: Lisa E. Gordon Hagerty
• Localización: Organismo Internacional de Energía Atómica Boletin, ISSN 0534-7297, Vol. 61, Nº. 1, 2020, págs. 28-29
• Idioma: inglés
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  • For more than a generation, the fear that terrorists could acquire and use a nuclear weapon has motivated a range of efforts by the Member States, in cooperation with the IAEA, to place nuclear materials beyond the reach of non-State actors. Little imagination is required to envision the disastrous consequences that would occur should these efforts fail. As former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned, an act of nuclear terrorism “would not only cause widespread death and destruction but would stagger the world economy and thrust tens of millions of people into dire poverty.”