1st Edition

Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction Responding to the Challenge

Edited By Ian Bellany Copyright 2007
260 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

There is a widely held belief in the imminent probability of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons of mass destruction being used by terrorists against civilian targets. This edited volume critically assesses the suggestion that one safeguard against this possibility would be to strengthen existing international prohibitions against state- level acquisition of such weapons. A glimpse of... Read more

Introduction  General  1. Material Dangers Bellany  2. Manufacturing the Means of Apocalypse: Aum Shinrikyo and the Acquisition of Weapons of Mass Destruction Reader  Chemical and Biological  3. Chemical and Biological Terrorism and Multilateral Conventions Spiers  4. The Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological Weapons Convention: Confronting the Threat of International Terrorism Feakes  5. The Status of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in Relation to the Prevention of Bioterrorism Sims  6. Verification under the Chemical Weapons Convention Manley  Nuclear  7. Francis: The Diversion of Nuclear Materials for Terrorist Use  8. Arms Control, Game Theory and the Twenty-First Century Kilgour

Biography

Ian Bellany is Emeritus Professor of Politics at Lancaster University. He has written or co- written a total of ten books on aspects of international security.