The Great Superterrorism Scare
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9834564 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ehud Sprinzak (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Issue | 112 |
| Pages | 110 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Foreign Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-7228 • E-ISSN: 1945-2276 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1149039 |
| OpenAlex | W2226842836 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
Last March, representatives from more than a dozen U.S. federal agencies gathered at the White House for a secret simulation to test their readiness to confront a new kind of terrorism. Details of the scenario unfolded a month later on the front page of the New York Times: Without warning, thousands across the American Southwest fall deathly ill. Hospitals struggle to rush trained and immunized medical personnel into crisis areas. Panic spreads as vaccines and antibiotics run short-and then run out. The killer is a hybrid of smallpox and the deadly Marburg virus, genetically engineered and let loose by terrorists to infect hundreds of thousands along the Mexican-American border. This apocalyptic tale represents Washington's newest nightmare: the threat of a massive terrorist attack with chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons. Three recent events seem to have convinced the policymaking 6lite and the general public that a disaster is imminent: the 1995 nerve gas attack on a crowded Tokyo subway station by the Japanese millenarian cult Aum Shinrikyo; the disclosure of alarming new information about the former Soviet Union's massive biowarfare program; and disturbing
Biological warfare · Criminology · Dozen · Government (linguistics · Millenarianism · Nuclear weapon · Political science · Politics · Smallpox · Sociology · Terrorism · White (mutation · Global Security and Public Health · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Medicine · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence · Virology
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International Society and its Critics
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Problems of Preparedness
Deterring Terrorism
Russian law enforcement under president Putin
Dangerous Fragments
Globalization
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Framing the threat of catastrophic terrorism
Analytic Models and Policy Prescription
Terrorism in the 21st century
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Terrorists and biological weapons
The methodology of mass destruction
Responses
The Study of Terrorism After 11 September 2001
Constructing Enemies
Caractéristiques et évolution du terrorisme à motif religieux au Canada depuis 1973
Effects of Globalization on Military Operations
Exploding the myths of superterrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism in a multi-centric world
Weapons of mass disruption and terrorism
War
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,04 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2014 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |