Hype or Reality? : The "New Terrorism" and Mass Casualty Attacks

by Roberts, Brad

• ISBN13: 9780965616812
• ISBN10: 0965616819
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Chemical & Biological Arms Control

Table of Contents

About the Authors	vii
Foreword	xi
Introduction	xiii
Michael Moodie
The Essentials of the Debate
On Not Overstating the Problem	3	(14)
Ehud Sprinzak
On Not Understanding the Problem	17	(32)
James K. Campbell
Evaluating Components of the Problem
Right-Wing Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Motives, Strategies, and Movements	49	(20)
Paul de Armond
Lone Operators and Weapons of Mass Destruction	69	(14)
Jeffrey D. Simon
Collapsing States and Abrupt Regime Changes: Implications for NBC Terrorism	83	(26)
John Parachini
Agricultural Bioterrorism	109	(8)
Floyd Horn
Terrorism and Organized Crime	117	(30)
Phil Williams
Terrorism and Asymmetric Conflict	147	(12)
Brad Roberts
The Experience of the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo Group and Biological Agents	159	(14)
Milton Leitenberg
The Changing Environment
Motives and Methods of Future Political Violence: Landscapes of the Early Twenty-First Century	173	(20)
Paul Shulte
The Impact of Biotechnology	193	(14)
Malcolm R. Dando
Calibrating Risks
The Debate over Future Terrorist Use of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Weapons	207	(18)
Bruce Hoffman
The New Terrorism and NBC Weapons	225	(16)
Joseph F. Pilat
The WMD Terrorist Threat---Is There a Consensus View?	241	(12)
Brian Michael Jenkins
Public Safety Agencies: Trying to Define Readiness while Surviving the Rhetoric	253	(10)
Paul M. Maniscalco
James P. Denney
Conclusion: The Prospects for Mass Casualty Terrorism	263
Brad Roberts