Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons (Bcsia Studies in International Security) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262201283 ISBN 13: 9780262201285

Publisher: Mit Pr, 2000

Synopsis

Toxic Terror provides in-depth case studies of twelve terrorist groups and individuals who, from 1946 to 1998, allegedly acquired or employed CBW agents. The cases were researched from primary sources, including court documents, interviews, and declassified government files. By comparing the twelve cases, the book identities characteristic motivations and patterns of behavior associated with CBW terrorism and provides an empirical basis for prudent, cost-effective strategies of prevention and response.

About this title

About the Author:

Jonathan B. Tucker is Research Professor and Director of the CBW Nonproliferation Project at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California. During the 1999-2000 academic year, he is the Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University.

Review:

This insightful study of the motivations and patterns of behavior of individuals and groups that have acquired or used chemical or biological weapons is long overdue. There is little doubt that modern society is vulnerable to such attacks, but to prepare for and respond to the threat we must understand who may threaten us.

(Senator Richard G. Lugar, (R-Indiana))

Toxic Terror is a balanced and insightful assessment of the most serious threat facing the United States at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

(R. James Woolsey, former Director, Central Intelligence Agency)

About this edition

• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0262201283
• ISBN 13: 9780262201285
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 303
• Editor: Tucker Jonathan B.