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Nuclear Terrorism After 9/11

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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung A measured analysis of the risk of nuclear terrorism which attacks the problem from two angles: the very considerable technical challenges involved in getting a functional nuclear weapon and the related question of the motivations to ‘go nuclear’. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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Authors Robin Frost, Robin M Frost, Robin M. Frost, Robin M. (International Assessment Staff Frost
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd.
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 22.12.2005
 
EAN 9780415399920
ISBN 978-0-415-39992-0
No. of pages 88
Series Adelphi series
Adelphi Paper
Adelphi series
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography
Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education

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