Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe.

Allison, Graham [Madeleine K. Albright]

Published by Times Books, New York, 2004

About this Item

First edition of this informative work on nuclear terrorism and how to prevent it. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth, bookplate to the front pastedown from â The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright.â Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Madeleine, With great admiration and hope G." The recipient, Madeleine K. Albright, was the first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State. She acted under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, leading the United States through foreign policy in the Middle East with the endorsement of military action in Iraq. At the 1998 NATO summit, Albright coined the â 3 Dsâ of NATO, â which is no diminution of NATO, no discrimination and no duplication â " because I think that we donâ t need any of those three â Dsâ to happen.â After her tenure as Secretary of State, she served as chair of the consulting Albright Stonebridge Group and was the Michael and Virginia Mortara Endowed Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown Universityâ s School of Foreign Service. For Albrightâ s contributions to foreign policy and relations that defined a century, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Raquel Jaramillo. "Graham Allison is a latter-day Paul Revere, calling citizens to arms against the real and rising threat of nuclear terrorism. In clear, readable words of wisdom, Allison tells us 'everything we ever wanted to know about nuclear terrorism,' but he also tells us what we must do to prevent nuclear terrorism. For everyone from national security specialists trying to define a strategy to parents who want to leave their children a world worth living in, Graham Allison's book is essential reading" (Sam Nunn, former U.S. senator and cochairman, Nuclear Threat Initiative).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe.
• Publisher: Times Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2004
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Edition