CIAO DATE: 09/2009
August 2009
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
How much nuclear material has leaked, and is it in the hands of terrorists, in storage somewhere, or still in circulation? No one knows for sure, but the task of cleaning up the nuclear black market amounts to an Armageddon test for global intelligence. The standard for success is unforgiving: all nuclear material must be recovered before it finds its way into an improvised nuclear device.
Resource link: The Armageddon Test [PDF] - 118K