The debate on the potential for mass-casualty terrorism
The challenge to us security
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4086278 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph W Foxell (Administration for Children's Services, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 94-109 |
| Publication date | 1999-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Terrorism and Political Violence (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0954-6553 • E-ISSN: 1556-1836 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09546559908427496 |
| OpenAlex | W2030740248 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The United States of America, the world's only superpower, is increasingly endangered by terrorism because of the rise of fanatical groups dedicated to the total annihilation of those they see as their enemies. Their opportunity arises from the growing availability, for example, of biological weapons, or of nuclear materials from the former Soviet Union. This work explores several hypothetical threat‐vignette scenarios to explain how and why various terrorists might get and use these weapons. Here, some attention is paid to describing the ways in which nuclear, biological, and chemical terrorism might be deployed against a civilian population. It concludes by observing that developing strategies to defeat mass‐casualty terrorism may very well be the greatest challenge the United States will face in our lifetime
Criminology · Nuclear terrorism · Nuclear weapon · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Social science · Sociology · Soviet union · Superpower · Terrorism · Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research · Disaster Response and Management · Law · Nuclear Issues and Defense
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2005 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |