Preface

List of Abbreviations

Prologue

1. Principles for Defense

2. Security at the Source

3. Building Blocks

4. The Beginnings of a True System

5. Warning

6. A Wider Universe of Nuclear Plots and Defenses

7. The Way Forward

Appendix: Radiation Detection and Weapons Effects Calculations

Glossary

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Michael Levi is David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York.