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Terrorism and global security : the nuclear threat /

The enormous potential for destruction that lies latent in nuclear technology inevitably gives rise to the possibility of nuclear terrorism--the use of nuclear explosives or radioactivity by insurgent groups. Professor Beres considers the factors that might foster such terrorism, the forms it might...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beres, Louis René (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Westview special studies in national and international terrorism.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Understanding Nuclear Terrorism
  • The Specter of Nuclear Terrorism: An Overview
  • The Etiology of Nuclear Terrorism: Five Harbingers
  • Nuclear Terrorism: Forms and Effects
  • Preventing Nuclear Terrorism
  • Introduction
  • Hardening the Target: Physical Security and Nonproliferation
  • Softening the Adversary: Behavioral Strategies
  • Redefining National Interests: Planetization and Freedom from Nuclear Terrorism