Unconventional weapons and international terrorism
Subtitle: challenges and new approaches
By: edited by Magnus Ranstorp and Magnus Normark.
Contributors: Ranstorp, Magnus.; Normark, Magnus.
Series: Political violence
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780415484398; 9780203881958
Subjects: Terrorism; Terrorists -- Attitudes; Weapons; Technology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Defining knowledge gaps within CBRN terrorism research / Gary Ackerman; title: WMD and the four dimensions of Al-Qaeda / Brian Fishman and James J.F. Forest; title: Al-Qaeda's thinking on CBRN : a case study / Anne Stenersen; title: Indicators of chemical terrorism / Amy E. Smithson; title: Capacity-building and proliferation biological terrorism / Gabriele Kraatz-Wadsack; title: Terrorism and potential biological warfare agents / Walter Biederbick; title: Influence diagram analysis of nuclear and radiological terrorism / Charles D. Ferguson; title: Approaching threat convergence from an intelligence perspective / Gregory F. Treverton; title: Terrifying landscapes : understanding motivations of non-state actors to acquire and/or use weapons of mass destruction / Nancy K Hayden; title: Conclusions / Magnus Ranstorp and Magnus Normark.