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So we stand today with a still fully armed nuclear arsenal among many countries around the world, but a very different set of circumstances.

So I'm going to talk about a nuclear threat story in two chapters.

Chapter one is 1949 to 1991, when the Soviet Union broke up, and what we were dealing with, at that point and through those years, was a superpowers' nuclear arms race.

So the threat of my own destruction kept me from launching a nuclear attack on you.

During this chapter one, there was a high level of public awareness about the potential of nuclear catastrophe, and an indelible image was implanted in our collective minds that, in fact, a nuclear holocaust would be absolutely globally destructive and could, in some ways, mean the end of civilization as we know it.

This was basically an attempt to teach our schoolchildren that if we did get engaged in a nuclear confrontation and atomic war, then we wanted our school children to kind of basically duck and cover.

The civil defense programs were disconnected from the reality of what we'd see in all-out nuclear war.

Here's what's going to happen if we get a nuclear hit."

So no possibility of medical response to, or meaningful preparedness for all-out nuclear war.

So we had to prevent nuclear war if we expected to survive.

But from 1991 through the present time, emphasized by the attacks of 2001, the idea of an all-out nuclear war has diminished and the idea of a single event, act of nuclear terrorism is what we have instead.

Although the scenario has changed very considerably, the fact is that we haven't changed our mental image of what a nuclear war means.

So, what is a nuclear terror threat?

First thing is that the global nuclear weapons, in the stockpiles that I showed you in those original maps, happen to be not uniformly secure.

From 1993 through 2006, the International Atomic Energy Agency documented 175 cases of nuclear theft, 18 of which involved highly enriched uranium or plutonium, the key ingredients to make a nuclear weapon.

And there's a lot of controversy about whether terror organizations have the know-how to actually make a nuclear weapon.

There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts.

There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.

The third element of the nuclear terror threat is that, who would actually do such a thing?

Somebody once said, Al Qaeda does not have a return address, so if they attack us with a nuclear weapon, what's the response, and to whom is the response?

What if they had gotten their hands on a nuclear weapon?

You don't want to build a suitcase bomb, and you happen to get one of those insecure nuclear warheads that exist.

Anybody who dismisses the thought of a nuclear weapon being used by a terrorist is kidding themselves.

At this particular moment, we actually could end up seeing a nuclear detonation in one of our cities.

I don't think we would see an all-out nuclear war any time soon, although even that is not completely off the table.

There's still enough nuclear weapons in the arsenals of the superpowers to destroy the Earth many, many times over.

There are flash points in India and Pakistan, in the Middle East, in North Korea, other places where the use of nuclear weapons, while initially locally, could very rapidly go into a situation where we'd be facing all-out nuclear war.

Well, if we're talking about the old days of an all-out nuclear attack, you, up here, are as dead as the people here.

And if you do that, you actually can survive a nuclear blast.

But in 2008, there isn't one single American city that has done effective plans to deal with a nuclear detonation disaster.

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