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Nuclear war: the threat that never went away

Nature volume 451, pages 114–115 (2008)Cite this article

In the first of a series of articles covering nuclear issues, Declan Butler looks at the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and finds that there has never been a better climate for negotiation.

?What gets my juices flowing is my conviction that a terrorist will explode a nuclear bomb in one of our US cities by 2014. And the truth is that this is a preventable catastrophe. It will be despite a wealth of things that we could have done. Afterwards, we will say that we should have done these things ? some of which we didn't do at all, or didn't do expeditiously enough.?

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