Terrorism and weapons of mass destruction : responding to the challenge / edited by Ian Bellany.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bellany, Ian.

Series:

Routledge global security studies ; 3.

Routledge global security studies ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terrorism--Prevention.

Terrorism.

Terrorism--Prevention--International cooperation.

Weapons of mass destruction--Prevention--International cooperation.

Weapons of mass destruction.

Arms control--International cooperation.

Arms control.

Security, International.

International cooperation.

Physical Description:

viii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Contents:

Introduction

Material dangers / Ian Bellany

Manufacturing the means of apocalypse : Aum Shinrikyo and the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction / Ian Reader

Chemical and biological terrorism and multilateral conventions / Edward M. Spiers

The Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological Weapons Convention : confronting the threat of international terrorism / Daniel Feakes

The status of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in relation to the prevention of bioterrorism / Nicholas A. Sims

Verification under the Chemical Weapons Convention / Ron G. Manley

The diversion of nuclear materials for terrorist use / Stephen M. Francis

Arms control, game theory and the twenty-first century / D. Marc Kilgour.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415417143

0415417147

9780203937532

0203937538

OCLC:

144328994