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+Countries are increasing nuclear power production and becoming increasingly more vulnerable in the squo – terrorists are aggressively seeking nuclear material to build weapons and dirty bombs. |
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+NY Times 16: Editorial Board, 3-27-2016, "Keeping Nuclear Weapons From Terrorists," New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/28/opinion/keeping-nuclear-weapons-from-terrorists.html |
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+The recent attacks … plug security gaps. |
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+Terrorists can acquire plutonium from nuclear facilities to make nukes and dirty bombs – it’s not just facilities that are the problem – every step of the process is incredibly vulnerable. |
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+Sovacool and Cooper 8: Benjamin Sovacool (Research Fellow in the Energy Governance Program at the Centre on Asia and Globaliaztion, part of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, adjunct professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) and Christopher Cooper (Principal Partner for Oomph Consulting, LLC, former Executive Director of the Network for New Energy Choices) “Nuclear Nonsense: Why Nuclear Power is No Answer to Climate Change and the World's Post- Kyoto Energy Challenges” William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review Volume 33 Issue 1 Article 2 2008 h p://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol33/iss1/2 JW |
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+The Nobel Prize … nuclear weapons proliferation.562 |
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+That’s the most likely existential threat. |
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+Rhodes 9: RICHARD RHODES He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT, and currently he is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Rhodes is the author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), which won the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award. It was the first of four volumes he has written on the history of the nuclear age. Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (1995), Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race (2007), and The Twilight of the Bombs (forthcoming in autumn 2010) are the others. Reducing the nuclear threat: The argument for public safety 14 DECEMBER 2009 |
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+The response was … sending a message. |
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+Probability of an attack is incredibly high and new tech can’t solve – here’s more warrants – and an attack causes huge blackouts that devastate the economy. |
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+Sovacool and Cooper 8: Benjamin Sovacool (Research Fellow in the Energy Governance Program at the Centre on Asia and Globaliaztion, part of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, adjunct professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) and Christopher Cooper (Principal Partner for Oomph Consulting, LLC, former Executive Director of the Network for New Energy Choices) “Nuclear Nonsense: Why Nuclear Power is No Answer to Climate Change and the World's Post- Kyoto Energy Challenges” William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review Volume 33 Issue 1 Article 2 2008 http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol33/iss1/2 JW |
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+Nuclear plants face … be stored onsite." ° |
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+Econ decline causes global nuke war and extinction – many statistical analyses. |
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+Royal 10: Jedediah Royal (Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense) “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises” Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives p. 213-214 2010 |
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+Less intuitive is … deserves more attention. |