At the Fund’s invitation, twenty leading thinkers in the fields of weak and failing states, terrorism, and weapons of mass destruction met on April 7th, 2006. Charged with shaping an agenda for a larger conference of experts, the workshop participants concluded that a “supply and demand” approach to conceptualizing threat convergence offered the most fruitful path for identifying conceptual, geographic, transactional, and social network points of intersection.

The mapping workshop highlighted weak and failing states as a point of entry to the problem of threat convergence and generated scenario parameters to inform an “end-to-end” analysis of the chain of events that would permit a nuclear attack by a terrorist group.

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