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Reasonable doubts: foreseeing failures in WMD security

 

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1 Associated Press, “Flight of Nuclear Warheads over U.S. Is under Inquiry,” September 6, 2007, <www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/us/06bomber.html>.

2 Paul A. Ostrowski, “AR 15-6 Investigation Report: Individual and Institutional Accountability for the Shipment of Viable Bacillus anthracis from Dugway Proving Ground,” Department of Defense, December 15, 2015.

3 Jeffrey Lewis, “The Nuclear Trials of Ashton Carter,” Foreign Policy, February 5, 2015 <http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/02/05/nuclear-triad-modernization-strategic-defense-ashton-carter-pentagon/#explainer>.

4 Eric Schlosser, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (New York: Penguin Books, 2013), p. 327.

5 Scott D. Sagan, The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995).

6 John D. Steinbruner, The Cybernetic Theory of Decision: New Dimensions of Political Analysis, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002).

7 Ostrowski, “AR 15-6 Investigation Report.”

8 Ibid., p. 97.

9 William Tobey, “The All-Too-Human Reason Nuclear Material Isn't Secure Enough,” Defense One, March 23, 2016, <www.defenseone.com/ideas/2016/03/all-too-human-reason-nuclear-material-isnt-secure-enough/126864/>.

10 Matthew Wald and William Broad, “Security Questions Are Raised by Break-in at a Nuclear Site,” New York Times, August 7, 2012, <www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/us/pacifists-who-broke-into-nuclear-weapon-facility-due-in-court.html?_r=2andref=atomicweapons>.

11 Jeffrey Lewis, “Belgium's Failed State Is Guarding America's Nuclear Weapons,” Foreign Policy, March 29, 2016, <http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/29/belgiums-failed-state-is-guarding-americas-nuclear-weapons/>.

12 Josh White, “In Error, B-52 Flew over U.S. with Nuclear-Armed Missiles,” Washington Post, September 6, 2007, <www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/05/AR2007090500762.html>.

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