Worst cases
Subtitle: terror and catastrophe in the popular imagination
By: Lee Clarke
Edition: [EasyRead large print ed.].
Publisher: Read How You Want
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Sydney]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9781459613928
Subjects: Large type books; Emergency management; Disasters; Psychological aspects; Terrorism; Risk assessment; The Catastrophical
Description: Al Qaeda detonates a nuclear weapon in Times Square during rush hour, wiping out half of Manhattan and killing 500,000 people. A virulent strain of bird flu jumps to humans in Thailand, sweeps across Asia, and claims more than fifty million lives. A single freight car of chlorine derails on the outskirts of Los Angeles, spilling its contents and killing seven million. An asteroid ten kilometers wide slams into the Atlantic Ocean, unleashing a tsunami that renders life on the planet as we know it extinct.

Social science.

Large print.

Risk assessment.
Notes: Originally published: Chicago Ill. : University of Chicago Press, ©2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.