The new face of terrorism : threats from weapons of mass destruction / Nadine Gurr and Benjamin Cole.

Author/creator Gurr, Nadine
Other author Cole, Benjamin.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York, NY : In the United States of America and in Canada distributed by St Martins Press, 2002.
Descriptionxii, 312 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents The emergence of the NBC terrorism debate -- Trends in terrorist activity -- Technical opportunities and constraints -- Strategic and tactical motivations and disincentives to using NBC weapons -- Political disincentives to using NBC weapons -- Political and theological motivations to using NBC weapons -- Psychological motivations and inhibitory controls -- External motivations: state-sponsored NBC terrorism -- External constraints: the security environment created by government counter-measures -- The future -- Appendix: Database of biological, chemical and nuclear terrorist incidents.
General note"First published in 2000 by I B Tauris"--T.p. verso.
General note"Today's world crisis"--Cover.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [309]-312).
ISBN1860648258