Justin Metz

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Enforce the Status Quo: A Critique of Nuclear Non-Proliferation

by Justin Metz, Correspondent, Roosevelt Institute. Comments Off on Enforce the Status Quo: A Critique of Nuclear Non-Proliferation

The most contact I (and I’d imagine most other Wesleyan students) have ever had with nuclear terrorism was watching Jack Bauer track down that suitcase nuke in LA. Though the prospect of nuclear detonation in a densely populated metropolis makes for some badass episodes and some sky high ratings, it seems to me that the “single biggest threat to U.S. security” might be more the expression of sensationalist TV than a credible threat to be feared and combated in the three-dimensional world.

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