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16%OFFJessica Stern - The Ultimate Terrorists - 9780674003941 - V9780674003941
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The Ultimate Terrorists

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Description for The Ultimate Terrorists Paperback. As bad as they are, why aren't terrorists worse? With biological, chemical and nuclear weapons at hand, they easily could be. Jessica Stern argues that the nuclear threat of the Cold War has been replaced by the more imminent threat of terrorist attacks with weapons of mass destruction. Num Pages: 224 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JPWL; JWDG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.

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.

According to SternThe Ultimate Terrorists depicts a not-very-distant future in which both independent and state-sponsored terrorism ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674003941
SKU
V9780674003941
Shipping Time
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99-1

About Jessica Stern
Jessica Stern teaches at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and is a former member of the staff of the National Security Council, where she ran the Nuclear Smuggling Interagency group as director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian affairs.

Reviews for The Ultimate Terrorists
[Stern's] research is breathtakingly thorough, and the prose, so often describing complex technological detail, surprisingly lucid. The era of 'the ultimate terrorists', implying nuclear, biological or chemical weapons may not yet have dawned in any real sense, but the potential and the danger, as this book illustrates, are all too obvious...[Stern] has written a valuable book that should serve as ... Read more

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