03690cam a2200565 a 4500 ocm39812131 OCoLC 20241029113521.0 980828s1999 mau b 001 0 eng 98042453 GB99Z0004 bnb 007126935 Uk 011970997 Uk 0674617908 (alk. paper) 9780674617902 (alk. paper) 0674003942 9780674003941 AU@ 000014529512 AU@ 000014614463 GEBAY 6020465 NLGGC 173503942 NZ1 2400979 UKMGB 007126935 YDXCP 1531240 YDXCP 1699188 ZWZ 059636300 (OCoLC)39812131 (OCoLC)59379475 (OCoLC)491865656 (OCoLC)1022600982 eng GAFCSC LIBRARY HV6431 S3 HV6431 Stern, Jessica, 1958- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJktt7HMdtkh9Q6QTPX8G3 The ultimate terrorists / Jessica Stern. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1999. 214 pages ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Terrorism today -- Definitions -- Trojan horses of the body -- Getting and using the weapons -- Who are the terrorists? -- The threat of loose nukes -- The state as terrorist -- What is to be done? "As bad as they are, why aren't terrorists worse? With biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons at hand, they easily could be. And, as this chilling book suggests, they soon may well be. A former member of the National Security Council Staff, Jessica Stern guides us expertly through a post-Cold War world in which the threat of all-out nuclear war, devastating but highly unlikely, is being replaced by the less costly but much more imminent threat of terrorist attacks with weapons of mass destruction."--BOOK JACKET. "According to Stern, several factors increase the probability of a major incident. Most important is the emergence of a new breed of terrorists - violent night-wing extremists, apocalyptic groups, and millenarian cults, all less constrained than their predecessors by traditional ethics or political pressures. The dissemination of know-how about nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons in books and on the Internet heightens the risk. Stern also warns us of the risks posed by the weak states and atomized societies left in the Cold War's wake, including the dangers of theft and smuggling of nuclear and chemical materials from former Soviet facilities, and the risk that underpaid weapons experts will sell their expertise to state sponsors of terrorism or to the terrorists themselves."--BOOK JACKET. "But Stern also holds out hope for new technologies that might combat this trend, and for legal and political remedies that would improve public safety without compromising basic constitutional rights."--Jacket. Terrorism. Weapons of mass destruction. Bioterrorism. Chemical warfare. Nuclear warfare. has work: The ultimate terrorists (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGjXrY7KkqJBDVxQjBbrv3 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Online version: Stern, Jessica, 1958- Ultimate terrorists. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1999 (OCoLC)654234064 lcc BK HV6431 S3 0 NO HOLDINGS IN GHUCC - 1023 OTHER HOLDINGS 1521 1521 0 0 lcc 0 0 REF GAFC GAFC GEN 2024-10-29 0 HV6431 S3 2024-2405 2024-10-29 11:36:07 c.1 2024-10-29 BK