ABSTRACT
Empowerment, self-limiting conflict through nonviolent direct action, crisis management, and mediation all played significant parts in the successful planning, implementation, and public response to the event. Some students of terrorism are convinced that terrorists will increasingly direct their activity toward nuclear installations and materials as they increase in number, size, and volume. The level of terror increases with each advance in nuclear weapons technology. Rocky Flats is vulnerable, as are all nuclear weapons and energy facilities around the world, to all four types of terrorism—insurgent, idiosyncratic, criminal, and state terrorism. The melding of religious, environmental, political, and peace organizations in the antinuclear movement makes it an unusually interesting case for students of collective behavior. Antinuclear campaigns vary in the degree to which leaders and participants are committed to nonviolence. The vitality of the movement is reflected in the growing incidence of public demonstrations and civil disobedience against nuclear facilities.
