Nuclear Terrorism

A Threat Assessment for the 21st Century

G. Cameron

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 1999
• Print ISBN: 9780333748503
• eBook ISBN: 9780230599222
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Will the twenty-first century see terrorist fingers on the nuclear trigger? How likely is it 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. The growing opportunities for nuclear proliferation, primarily arising from the collapse of the Soviet Union are explained. The book concludes that the organisational 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Nuclear Terrorism
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction: the Opportunities For Nuclear Terrorism
• 2 Terrorism: Psychological and Instrumental Approaches
• 3 Religious Terror
• 4 Ideological Terrorism
• 5 The Likelihood of Nuclear Terrorism
• 6 Conclusion
• Notes
• Select Bibliography
• Index