Vindplaats: | A 3.66  |
Titel: | How to Build a Nuclear Bomb   |
Auteur: | Frank Barnaby  |
Samenvatting: | Weapons of mass destruction are de greatest threat to national security in the twenty-first century: this book explains what it takes for a rogue state or terrorist group to obtain and use them.
The nuclear industry is making increasing quantities of plutonium available worldwide - a so- called 'dirty bomb' containing just one kilo would render an area 6ookm2 uninhabitable for years. It is easy today to obtain the chemicals required to manufacture chemical warfare agents, a single drop of which can kill. And biological agents, many of which can be legitimately bought or found in nature, can remain active in the environment for years.
But How to Build a Nuclear Bomb is not a collection of scare stories; in it, nuclear weapons and terrorism expert, Frank Barnaby, describes in straighforward, non-sensational terms what is involved when a state or a terrotist group sets out to make a weapon of mass destruction - biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear.
He explains what a weapon of mass destruction is, what it is capable of doing, and what is needed to produce one and argues that counter-terrorist measures urgently need to be stepped up to meet the challenges of a mew era of international terror.
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Uitgever: | Granta Books, London  |
Jaar van uitgave: | 2003  |
Taal: | Engels  |
Aantal aanwezig: | 1  |
ISBN/ISSN: | 1-86207- 624-3  |
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Ondertitel: | And other weapons of mass destruction  |
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Opmerkingen: | Enkele wereldkaarten, schema's en grafieken.  |
Aantal pagina's: | 180  |
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Trefwoorden: | kernwapens, atoomwapens, massavernietigingswapens,terrorisme, biologische wapens, chemische wapens, Noord Korea, proliferatie, wapenexport, cyberterrorisme,   |