Toxic Terror
Subtitle: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons (BCSIA Studies in International Security)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: February 25, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780262700719
Subjects: Chemical & biological weapons; Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Military - Biological & Chemical Warfare; Military Science; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Criminology; Biological warfare; Case studies; Chemical warfare; Terrorism; Terrorists
First sentence: On March 20, 1995, the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult carried out a terrorist attack in the Tokyo subway system with the chemical nerve agent sarin, killing a dozen people, injuring more than a thousand, and frightening millions.