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Subject(s)

• Nuclear industry—United States—Safety measures [Browse]
• Nuclear facilities—United States—Safety measures [Browse]
• Criminal psychology [Browse]
• Motivation (Psychology) [Browse]

Related name

• Sandia Laboratories [Browse]
• Rand Corporation [Browse]
• Bass, Gail V. [Browse]

Series

R (Rand Corporation) [More in this series]

Summary note

This report presents the findings of the third phase of a RAND project on the potential threat to U.S. nuclear programs and facilities. It sets forth a method for rating the appeal of various nuclear crimes to different adversaries, based on whether the crime is consistent with the adversary's motivations, capabilities, and other attributes. (Two previous volumes, R-2225 and R-2554, analyzed, respectively, adversary attributes--including capabilities--and motivations.) The report rates the relative appeal of specific nuclear crimes to economically motivated adversaries (both professional and amateur), political terrorists, antinuclear extremists, and hostile employees. It also discusses psychotic adversaries and those who might act for idiosyncratic reasons, but does not rate the appeal of various nuclear crimes to them. The study concludes that there are several nuclear crimes that could have serious consequences for public safety and which are of high appeal to one or more category of adversary

Notes

• "Prepared for Sandia National Laboratories."
• "February 1982."

Tech. report no.

R-2803-SL

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