Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Responding to the Challenge [1 ed.] 0415417147, 9780415417143, 9780203937532

There is a widely held belief in the imminent probability of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons of mass destructio

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Table of contents :
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Part I: General......Page 22
1 Material dangers......Page 24
2 Manufacturing the means of apocalypse: Aum Shinrikyo and the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction......Page 64
Part II: Chemical and biological......Page 92
3 Chemical and biological terrorism and multilateral conventions......Page 94
4 The Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological Weapons Convention: Confronting the threat of international terrorism......Page 127
5 The status of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in relation to the prevention of bioterrorism......Page 169
6 Verification under the Chemical Weapons Convention......Page 191
Part III: Nuclear......Page 210
7 The diversion of nuclear materials for terrorist use......Page 212
8 Arms control, game theory and the twenty-first century......Page 236
Index......Page 253

Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Responding to the Challenge  [1 ed.]
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