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Toxic Terror Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons

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ISBN-10: 0262700719

ISBN-13: 9780262700719

Edition: 2000

Authors: Jonathan B. Tucker

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Policymakers, scholars, and the news media have been alarmed by the potential for chemical and biological weapons (CBW) terrorism, and the U.S. Congress has allocated billions of dollars for counterterrorism and "consequence management" programs. Driving these concerns are the global spread of scientific knowledge and technology relevant to CBW terrorism and the vulnerability of civilian populations to chemical and biological attacks. Notably lacking from the analysis, however, has been a careful assessment of the terrorists themselves. What types of terrorist groups or individuals are both capable of acquiring chemical and biological weapons and motivated to use them, and for what…    
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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/28/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Roger M. Battistella is Emeritus Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Sloan Graduate Program in Health Administration at Cornell University.The late Jonathan B. Tucker was a Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists. He was the editor of Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons (MIT Press, 2000) and the author of Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox and War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Historical Case Studies
Avenging Israel's Blood (1946)
The Weather Underground (1970)
R.I.S.E. (1972)
The Alphabet Bomber (1974)
The Baader-Meinhof Gang (1975)
The Red Army Faction (1980)
The Rajneeshees (1984)
The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (1985)
The Minnesota Patriots Council (1991)
The World Trade Center Bombers (1993)
Aum Shinrikyo (1995)
Larry Wayne Harris (1998)
Findings and Conclusions
Lessons from the Case Studies
Psychological and Motivational Factors in Terrorist Decision-Making: Implications for CBW Terrorism
Contributors
Index
About the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs