Tournament: Cal Chico | Round: 5 | Opponent: Fullerton BS | Judge: Dunn
The aff’s blanket condemnation of war prevents successful continuation of the war against terrorists
Zuckerman et al 12 – research associate @ Heritage
(Jessica, with Michaela Bendikova – research assistant @ Douglas Center for Foreign Policy Studies, Lisa Curtis – Senior Research Fellow @ Asian Studies Center, Eleven Years Later: U.S. Should Not Lose Momentum in the War on Terrorism, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/09/counterterrorism-strategy-us-should-not-lose-momentum-in-war-on-terrorism)
Last year, in the run-up to the 10th anniversary of 9/
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an enduring and sustainable counterterrorism enterprise capable of responding to future emerging threats.
Now is key to stop terrorists – Al Qaeda is at a transitional moment
McLaughlin 13 (John McLaughlin was a CIA officer for 32 years and served as deputy director and acting director from 2000-2004. He currently teaches at the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, ¶ 06:00 AM ET¶ Terrorism at a moment of transition7/12, http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/12/terrorism-at-a-moment-of-transition/)
A third major trend has to do with the debate underway among terrorists over tactics
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"It needs but one foe to breed a war, not two ..."
Disabled bodies are unwillingly forced into carrying out terrorist attacks by Al Qaeda turning case
BBC News, 2008
2/1/08, “Twin bombs kill scores in Baghdad,” http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7221639.stm
Attack aftermath More than 70 people have been killed by two bombs in Baghdad,
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here," he said. "There are too many bodies to count."
Terrorists can easily acquire nuclear weapons- an attack would trigger full scale nuclear war
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(Patrick F. Jr.-, J.D. Candidate @ Marshall-Wythe School of Law, B.A. @ Wake, Feb., William and Mary Law Review, “Negligence and Nuclear Nonproliferation: Eliminating the Current Liability Barrier to Bilateral U.S.-Russian Nonproliferation Assistance Programs”, Lexis)
Although no terrorist acts directed against the population or interests of the United States
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among terrorist groups, many of which are hostile to the United States.
The collapse of the Soviet Union dramatically increased the risk that terrorist organizations will succeed
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37 Graham Allison summarizes the implications of post-Soviet disorder in Russia:
The dramatic changes ... have produced political uncertainty, economic distress, and social dislocation
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valuable to any state or group that covets nuclear weapons. It is not
hard to imagine that people leading bleak, uncertain, and difficult lives might find irresistible the prospect of wealth and security via the nuclear black market...
Organizations such as the Russian military and Minatom are now operating in circumstances of great stress. Money is in short supply, paychecks are irregular, living conditions unpleasant ... Disorder within Russia and the resulting strains within the military could easily cause a lapse or a breakdown in the Russian military's guardianship of nuclear weapons. 38
Accordingly, there is a significant and ever-present risk that terrorists could acquire a nuclear device or fissile material from Russia as a result of the confluence of Russian economic decline and the end of stringent Soviet-era nuclear security measures. 39
Terrorist groups could acquire a nuclear weapon by a number of methods, including "
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are the most effective means of countering the risk of nuclear terrorism. 44
Moreover, the end of the Cold War eliminated the rationale for maintaining a large
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material to sell, to states or terrorist organizations with nuclear ambitions. 48
The potential consequences of the unchecked spread of nuclear knowledge and material to terrorist groups
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in the United States and escalate to the use of nuclear weapons. 53
A nuclear terror attack turns their impacts – causes government intervention and re-entrenches oppression
Vladimir Z. Dvorkin ‘12 Major General (retired), doctor of technical sciences, professor, and senior fellow at the Center for International Security of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Center participates in the working group of the U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism, 9/21/12, "What Can Destroy Strategic Stability: Nuclear Terrorism is a Real Threat," belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/22333/what_can_destroy_strategic_stability.html
The vast majority of states have introduced unprecedented security and surveillance measures at transportation and
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a common understanding of these threats and develop a strategy to combat them.