America''s Achilles'' Heel - Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack

This volume analyzes the nature andlimits of the covert NBC threat and proposes a measured set of policyresponses, focused on improving intelligence andconsequence-management capabilities to reduce U.S. vulnerability.

List of contents

The covert NBC threat in historical perspective; NBC acquisition and covert delivery - technical possibilities and technical constraints; the threat of nuclear, biological or chemical attack by non-state actors; the threat of nuclear, biological or chemical attack by states; recommendations - an agenda for the American government.

About the author

Richard A. Falkenrath is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He served as Executive Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) and, before that, as a Research Fellow. He is the author and co-author of Shaping Europe's Military Order (1995), Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy (1996), America's Achilles' Heel: Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack (1998), and numerous journal articles and chapters of edited volumes.

Summary

This volume analyzes the nature andlimits of the covert NBC threat and proposes a measured set of policyresponses, focused on improving intelligence andconsequence-management capabilities to reduce U.S. vulnerability.

Product details

• Authors: Richard A Falkenrath, Richard A. Falkenrath, Richard A. Newman Falkenrath, Robert D Newman, Robert D. Newman, Bradley A. Thayer, Bradley A. (Missouri State University) Thayer
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.07.1998
• EAN: 9780262561181
• ISBN: 978-0-262-56118-1
• No. of pages: 380
• Series: Belfer Center Studies in International Security; Bcsia Studies in International; America's Achilles' Heel; Belfer Center Studies in International Security; Belfer Center Studies in Inter
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education