Terrorism
April 2000
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Title: Chemical and Biological Terrorism: How Real a Threat?
Author: Jonathan B. Tucker
"The potential threat of chemical and biological terrorism is sufficient to warrant an ongoing investment in improved intelligence collection and civil defense as a prudent insurance policy, but not on the massive scale advocated by some publicists and federal officials."
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Title: Nuclear Terrorism Reconsidered
Author: Gavin Cameron
"Nuclear terrorism, as a means of causing mass casualties, remains less likely than chemical or biological terrorism. Significant technical hurdles stand in the way of practicing nuclear terrorism in any form."
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Title: Understanding the New Terrorism
Author: Mark Juergensmeyer
"What has prompted the new terrorism? Why have these acts often been associated with religious causes, and why are they occurring with such frequency at this moment in history?"
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Title: Counterterrorism and the Constitution
Author: James X. Dempsey
"Terrorism certainly threatens United States interests, and potential terrorists are undoubtedly at work today planning future attacks. But the approaches called for by the 1996 Antiterrorism Act are not the answer. They have been tried and they have failed."
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Title: Domestic Terrorism: The Enemy Within
Author: Dennis B. Downey
"The convergence of antigovernment patriots and neo-Nazi white supremacists is the most disturbing development in American politics. These contemporary American terrorists, sworn to the overthrow of the government and a campaign of racial elimination, have become emboldened, brandishing a rhetoric of victimization and distrust that appeals to seemingly ancient hatreds and discontents."
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Title: Accomplice or Witness? The Media's Role in Terrorism
Author: Brigitte L. Nacos
"If terrorism is seen as political theater performed for audiences. . .clearly the mass media plays a crucial role. Without massive news coverage the terrorist act would resemble the proverbial tree falling in the forest."
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Title: Globally Wired: Politics in Cyberspace (Fourth in a Series): Information-Age Terrorism
Author: John Arquilla, David Ronfeldt, and Michele Zanini
"While some terrorists will eventually have the technological skills or opportunities to engage in extremely damaging cyberterrorism, this is not the only dangerous implication of the information revolution. More seriously, this revolution is enabling new forms of organization and new doctrines that will affect the spectrum of conflict, including terrorism."
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Title: Book Reviews: The Ultimate Terrorists. Jessica Stern.
Reviewer: William W. Finan, Jr.
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Title: Book Reviews: Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism. Robert Jay Lifton.
Reviewer: William W. Finan, Jr.
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Title: Book Reviews: Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence. Mark Juergensmeyer.
Reviewer: William W. Finan, Jr.
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Title: Book Reviews: Countering the New Terrorism. Ian O. Lesser et al.
Reviewer: William W. Finan, Jr.
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Title: The Month in Review: February 2000
An international chronology of events in February, country by country, day by day.
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Title: International Terrorist Attacks by Region, 1998
A map of the International Terrorist Attacks by Region, 1998.
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