ABSTRACT
This book addresses the critical importance of understanding innovation and decision-making between terrorist groups and unconventional weapons, and the difficulty in pinpointing what factors may drive violence escalation. It is useful for students of terrorism studies and nuclear proliferation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|15 pages
The status of CBRN terrorism research
part II|37 pages
Al-Qaeda motivations/incentives for CBRN terrorism
part III|73 pages
CBRN, capacity-building and proliferation
part IV|66 pages
CRBN and terrorism: dilemmas of prediction?
chapter 9|32 pages
Terrifying landscapes
Understanding motivations of non-state actors to acquire and/or use weapons of mass destruction