I think of Perilous Panacea as being a techno-thriller in the genre popularized by Tom Clancy (note:  I have no illusions about being another Clancy—at least at this time). It is based on today’s headlines, about nuclear terror set in the not-too-distant future, involving Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. It entails stolen plutonium and uranium and the clandestine manufacture of atomic bombs within the U.S. and all the chaos emanating from such an incident.
There have been other boo...
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Back in the late twentieth century, media stories speculated about how organized crime or terrorist organizations could acquire enriched uranium and plutonium by hijacking trucks transporting it around the country. Stolen bomb-grade nuclear material could then be turned into atomic bombs by terrorist countries or terrorist organizations. The Atomic Energy Commission, which later became the Department of Energy, reacted to the critic's concern by beefing up security of storage sites and transp...
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