Toxic Terror
Subtitle: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons (Bcsia Studies in International Security)
Publisher: Mit Pr
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780262201285
Subjects: Chemical And Biological Warfare; Political Terrorism; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; International Security; Military - Biological & Chemical Warfare; Chemical & biological weapons; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle; Criminology; Military Science; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; 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.