Christopher Blattman, professor of global conflict studies at the University of Chicago, is the author of “Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace.”
Finally, an act of nuclear terrorism would require the existence of a non-state actor that had both the organizational sophistication and the military ambition to entertain the prospect of nuclear violence. “I would say at the moment Al Qaeda and its various branches and ISIS are the main ter...
” he had written, “the people who toil in the rice fields with backs bent double and faces turned to the brackish mud, the naked children playing