Nuclear terror the bomb and other weapons of mass destruction in the wrong hands
"These are frightening times for us all: Sarin nerve gas being sprayed on innocent civilians in Syria, threats that biological warfare agents might be spread about on the New York Subway and the most terrifying of all, three dirty bomb attacks thwarted in Russia. The reality of all these develo...
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Barnsley, Yorkshire
Pen & Sword Military
2018
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "These are frightening times for us all: Sarin nerve gas being sprayed on innocent civilians in Syria, threats that biological warfare agents might be spread about on the New York Subway and the most terrifying of all, three dirty bomb attacks thwarted in Russia. The reality of all these developments is that the environment in which we live today is being seriously threatened by the calculated use of weapons of mass destruction, and from a variety of dissident sources. Many rogue nations have attempted to build the bomb, an enormously complex task. So far only Pakistan and North Korea have succeeded, with Iran right now on the cusp of making that breakthrough. South Africa built six atom bombs in the 1970/1980s but with British, American and help from the International Atomic Energy Agency dismantled both the weapons and the entire program shortly before Nelson Mandela came to power. In Nuclear Terror, Venter assesses the developments over the past 10 years of different countries in their attempts to build a nuclear program. Not inflammatory, or scaremongering, Venter takes an objective stance in chronicling these recent developments overseas and adds another valuable contribution to this conversation."--Publisher description Introduction A nuclear attack on London's Financial Centre -- Chapter 1: Nuclear terror - What is it all about? -- Chapter 2: Early days of chasing the bomb -- Chapter 3: Three countries that secretly built the bomb: Israel, India, and Pakistan -- Chapter 4: The bomb and those who seek to acquire nuclear expertise -- Chapter 5: An Israeli army major smuggles nuclear-related devices for Pakistan's atom bomb programme -- Chapter 6: Al-Qaeda's obsession with 'Dirty Bombs' -- Chapter 7: Case study: Syria's efforts to 'Go Nuclear' -- Chapter 8: Libya's attempt to build the A-Bomb -- Chapter 9: North Korea's nuclear weapons programme: A Third World template for the future -- Chapter 10: South Africa builds six Atom bombs -- Chapter 11: Why South Africa built the bomb -- Chapter 12: How South Africa's nuclear weapons programme took shape -- Chapter 13: The unanswered 'Hit' on Pelindaba and its supply of enriched uranium -- Chapter 14: Lessons learned from the nuclear experience with Saddam Hussein -- Chapter 15: Is Tehran building the bomb? -- Chapter 16: The illegal proliferation of nuclear materials out of the former Soviet Union -- Chapter 17: Interdicting nuclear scams out of the former Soviet Union -- Chapter 18: Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Algeria -- Chapter 19: A nuclear weapons programme in Burma -- Chapter 20: Biological weapons: A real and agonising threat has come back to haunt us -- Chapter 21: Chemical weapons - A scourge that threatens our future |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xx, 289 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some color) 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 1526723042 1-5267-2304-2 9781526723048 978-1-5267-2304-8 |