Robin M. Frost

Nuclear Terrorism After 9/11

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Produktbeschreibung

related question of the strategic, political, and psychological motivation to "go nuclear." It concludes, with some other writers, that nuclear terrorism is not a significant threat, and that, among terrorists, Muslim extremists are not the most likely to go use nuclear weapons.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 90
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 152g
• ISBN-13: 9780415399920
• ISBN-10: 0415399920
• Artikelnr.: 21882144

Autorenporträt

Robin M. Frost is an analyst with the Government of Canada. He holds degrees in political science, psychology, and journalism, and has published papers on nuclear terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and other subjects. He previously worked as an academic, as a broadcast news journalist, and in the software industry.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Nuclear terrorism - an overview 3. Terrorist Nuclear
Weapons 4. The Nuclear Black Market 5. Improvised Nuclear Devices (INDs) 6.
Amateur and 'Low End' Weapons Design 7. The Nth Country Experiment 8. The
Teenager's 10kt Beachball 9. An Artistic Representation of the Fat Man 10.
South Africa: Quick and Dirty Bombs? 11. An Unholy Bomb: the Aum Shinrikyo
12. 'Loose' Russian nuclear weapons 13. Terrorist Psychology, Motivation,
and Strategy 14. Psycho Killer, Qu'est Que C'est? 15. Motivation and
Constraints 16. Nationalists/Separatists 17. Social-Revolutionaries 18.
Right-Wing Terrorism 19. Religious Terrorism 20. Single-issue terrorism 21.
Terrorism and Nuclear Deterrence 22. Is Al Qa'ida a Nuclear Threat? 23. Al
Qa'ida and Jihadist Strategy