Are We Prepared?: Four WMD Crises That Could Transform U.S. Security (Paperback) Books shelved as wmd: Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who R...

2024年1月19日 · This week’s installment of War Books, originally published in 2019, features a set of books on weapons of mass destruction recommended by Al Mauroni, director of the US Air Force Center for Strategic Deterrence Studies and author of the book Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction: Assessing the U.S. Government’s Policy.

When Navy SEAL Lieutenant Brendan McHugh captures an Iranian diplomat on an anti-insurgency raid, it just feels all wrong. The rules of engagement say he must let the diplomat go, but that doesn't stop McHugh from asking questions. With an FBI linguist and a CIA analyst on his team, he chases clues across the globe to uncover a terrifying plot.

WMD Terrorism provides multidisciplinary perspectives on such topics as terrorist incentives for acquiring WMD; nuclear, radiological, biological, and chemical weapons technologies and genetically engineered weapons; sensor technologies; mathematical methods for analyzing terrorist threats and allocating defense resources; the role of domestic ...

2016年9月15日 · Terrorism and WMD’s, Second Edition provides a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Terrorist weapons and delivery methods are becoming increasingly sophisticated; as such, this book focuses on the chemistry and biology of WMDs, the development and history of their use, and human health effects ...

2024年10月7日 · While writing my first Substack article, I came across this book “Ultimate Security: Combating WMD” (Century Foundation, 2003) and was fascinated by the essays presented by a very distinguished list of scholars and practitioners. I’ll …

Their extensive experience is evident in this book, which puts the Iraqi WMD issue in proper perspective, explains the challenge of monitoring small clandestine programs, and explains how the effort to prevent terrorist acquisition and use of WMD differs from preventing their acquisition and use by nation states.

Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) are chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) weapons or devices capable of a high order of destruction and/or causing mass casualties. The terrorist threat is amplified by the proliferation of WMD and their potential use by terrorists.