Nuclear Terrorism: A Threat Assessment for the 21st Century / Edition 1

by G. Cameron, St Martins Press

Overview

This book assesses the causes for, and the implications of, the escalating lethality of terrorism. This is then placed in the context of the growing opportunities for nuclear proliferation arising from the collapse of the Soviet Union. The book concludes that the organizational and psychological pressures within terrorist groups and the changing nature of political violence, combined with the heightened danger of nuclear non-proliferation, have made mass-destructive terrorism the greatest non-traditional threat to intellectual security in the world today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312219833
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/16/1999
Edition description:	1999
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Gavin Cameron is Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Opportunities for Nuclear Terrorism
• Terrorism: Psychological and Instrumental Approaches
• Religious Terror
• Ideological Terrorism
• The Likelihood of Nuclear Terrorism
• Conclusion
• Index

Editorial Reviews

'...full of interest and there are plenty of examples to illustrate every point...it is convincing, accessible and unpretentious and will prove to be an invaluable reference work for those engaged in the future of terrorism and terrorists.' - Rear Admiral Richard Cobbold, RUSI Journal

'The great merit of nuclear Nuclear Terrorism: A Threat Assesment for the Twenty-First Century, Gavin Cameron's survey of the problem, is that he looks at why terrorist attacks might be mounted...Gavin Cameron has performed a valuable service in helping to keep analysis of the problem on the right side of the line between prudence and paranoia.' - Lawrence Freedman, Times Literary Supplement

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