Will terrorists go nuclear?
According to a British intelligence report leaked to the press in 2007, al Qaeda operatives are planning a large-scale attack "on par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki." How likely is it that terrorists will develop the capability of such an attack? No one understands the nature of the threat po...
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Amherst, N.Y.
Prometheus Books
2008
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- A shiver of terror
- Growing concern
- The first imaginings
- Motives
- Self-imposed constraints
- Nuclear coercion: just hoaxes?
- Designing the threat
- Black markets
- A small cup of Italian coffee
- Lebed's lost luggage
- Visions of mass destruction
- The "new terrorism"
- From a balance of terror to a world unhinged
- An age of alarms
- America the anxious
- The first terrorist nuclear power
- Is deterrence dead?
- A self-sustaining fission of fear
- A choice of reactions
- A brilliant yellow light
- Reflections on the shadows of doom
- Countering our own fear