Worst Cases Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular Imagination

Name: Worst Cases Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular Imagination
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ISBN: 9780226108599

ISBN-10: 0226108597

ISBN-13: 9780226108599

Edition: 2005

Authors: Lee Clarke

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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. We consider the few who live in fear of such scenarios to be alarmist or even paranoid. But "Worst Cases shows that such individuals--like Cassandra foreseeing the fall of Troy--are more…

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List price: $22.50
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface



Worst Cases: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid



The Sky Could Be Falling: Globally Relevant Disasters and the Perils of Probabilism



What's the Worst That Can Happen?



Power, Politics, and Panic in Worst Cases



Silver Linings: The Good from the Worst



Living and Dying in Worst Case Worlds


Notes


Index