Strategic Assessment1995: Chapter Nine - U.S. Security Interests

Strategic Assessment1995: Chapter Nine - U.S. Security Interests:

Preventing Any WMD Attack on U.S. Citizens

"The substantial reduction in the threat of strategic nuclear war with a peer nuclear power has not necessarily made the U.S. secure from WMD. The bombing of the World Trade Center may portend future terrorist attacks on soft unprotected targets such as cities. In time, U.S. cities will become directly vulnerable to attacks by long-range delivery systems of new nuclear powers. A more immediate concern is that U.S. forces deployed abroad are increasingly at risk from WMD and missile proliferation. "