Nuclear Terrorism : A Threat Assessment for the 21st Century

A Threat Assessment for the Twenty-First Century

By: G. Cameron

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Paperback | 1 June 1999 | Edition Number 1

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Will the twenty-first century see terrorists with nuclear capability? How likely is it that terrorists will obtain weapons of mass destruction? What factors would determine their decision to use them? Gavin Cameron assesses the causes for, and implications of, the escalating lethality of terrorism. He considers, from a psychological and organizational perspective, why groups resort to political violence, why they find it exceptionally difficult to move away from using terrorism, and how this affects their propensity to increase the level of violence that they employ. This is then placed in the context of the growing opportunities for nuclear proliferation and nuclear smuggling, arising predominantly 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 micro-proliferation, have made mass-destructive terrorism the greatest non-traditional threat to international security in the world today.

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'...full of interest and there are plenty of examples to illustrate every point...it is convincing, accessible and unpretentious and will prove to be an invaluable reference work for those engaged in the future of terrorism and terrorists.' - Rear Admiral Richard Cobbold, RUSI Journal

'The great merit of nuclear Nuclear Terrorism: A Threat Assesment for the Twenty-First Century, Gavin Cameron's survey of the problem, is that he looks at why terrorist attacks might be mounted...Gavin 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.' - Lawrence Freedman, Times Literary Supplement

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Acknowledgements	p. viii
List of Abbreviations	p. x
Introduction: the Opportunities for Nuclear Terrorism	p. 1
Nuclear Proliferation	p. 2
Nuclear Terrorism	p. 13
Terrorism: Psychological and Instrumental Approaches	p. 17
Individual Psychology	p. 18
Group Psychology	p. 31
Tactics and Targeting	p. 56
Religious Terror	p. 77
Religious Terrorism	p. 77
Sacrifice and Martyrdom	p. 80
The Objective of Religious Terrorism	p. 83
A Comparison of Religious and Secular Terrorism	p. 86
Messianism and Millenarianism	p. 92
Ideological Terrorism	p. 99
Right-wing Terrorism	p. 99
Left-wing and Anti-nuclear Terrorism	p. 116
The Likelihood of Nuclear Terrorism	p. 131
The Feasibility of Nuclear Terrorism	p. 131
The Psychology of Nuclear Terrorism	p. 135
An Assessment of the Future Risk of Nuclear Terrorism	p. 143
Conclusion	p. 152
Notes	p. 163
Select Bibliography	p. 185
Index	p. 194
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Nuclear Terrorism : A Threat Assessment for the 21st Century

A Threat Assessment for the Twenty-First Century

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