WMD Terrorism: Science and Policy Choices
- ISBN-10
- 0262512858
- ISBN-13
- 9780262512855
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 608
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Author
- Stephen M. Maurer
Description
This collection of essays is a current and comprehensive review of what scientists and scholars know about WMD terrorism and America's options for confronting it. Complete with mathematical methods for analyzing terrorist threats and allocating defense resources, this multidisciplinary perspective addresses all forms and defenses of WMD, and the role of domestic U.S. politics in shaping defense investments and policies. Also identified are multiple instances in which the conventional wisdom is incomplete or misleading.
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