Nuclear Terrorism
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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.
Synopsis
This book asseses the causes for, and the implications of, the escalating lethality of terrorism.
Booknews
Cameron (nonproliferation studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, California) sees two factors that, added together, make nuclear terrorism the greatest non-traditional threat to international security today. The first is the growing pressure for groups to resort to violence. The second is the wide availability of nuclear materials and devices, particularly because of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Editorials
Booknews
Cameron (nonproliferation studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, California) sees two factors that, added together, make nuclear terrorism the greatest non-traditional threat to international security today. The first is the growing pressure for groups to resort to violence. The second is the wide availability of nuclear materials and devices, particularly because of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Lawrence Freedman
The great merit of Nuclear Terrorism: A threat assessment for the twenty-first century , Gavin Cameron's survey of the problem, is that he looks at why terrorist attacks might be mounted.... he then examines in detail the motives of terrorists and their preferred strategies.... an extremely useful guide to recent research on all aspects of terrorism.... 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.— The Times Literary Supplement