Radiological and Nuclear Adversary Project Task 3: Terrorist Nuclear Command and Control July 25, 2012 National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism A Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Center of Excellence Based at the University of Maryland 3300 Symons Hall • College Park, MD 20742 • 301.405.6600 • www.start.umd.edu National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism A U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence About This Report The authors of this report are Charles P. Blair and Gary A. Ackerman. Questions about this report should be directed to Gary Ackerman at
[email protected]. Additional authors contributing group profiles are Jeffrey M. Bale and Jarret M. Brachman. The authors would like to thank the following individuals for their assistance: START Research Staff: Suzzette Abbasciano, William Braniff, Mila Johns, Mary Michael, Amy Pate, Lauren Pinson, and John Sawyer. START Research Assistants (for formatting and editing the final report): Richard Burns, Michael Cianfinchi, David Fu, Paul Gallo, Georg Grosse-Hohl, Christina Hesse, Emily Joseph, Anna Lepingwell, Daniel Murphy, Patrick Niceforo, Daniel Richey, and Brittany Steele. Federation of American Scientists (FAS) (for substantive research assistance and report editing): Nilsu Goren and Libby Osher. FAS Research Assistants (for report editing): Drew Beggs, Jonathan Garbose, and Elizabeth Grace. This material is based upon work done by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START, www.start.umd.edu) under contract HSHQDC-10-D-00023 with the Department of Homeland Security. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the U.S.