By Gary Ackerman, Jeremy Tamsett
Explores the Nexus shaped while Malevolent Actors entry Malignant capability
Written for execs, lecturers, and policymakers operating on the vanguard of counterterrorism efforts, Jihadists and guns of Mass Destruction is an authoritative and complete paintings addressing the specter of guns of mass destruction (WMD) within the fingers of jihadists, either traditionally and searching towards the longer term danger surroundings. supplying perception on one of many optimum safety problems with the 21st century, this seminal source effectively:
- Documents present developments within the ideology, method, and strategies of jihadists as those relate to WMD
- Includes a bit dedicated to jihadist involvement with chemical, organic, radiological, and nuclear weapons
- Explores the function of intelligence, legislation enforcement, and policymakers in looking ahead to, deterring, and mitigating WMD assaults
- Provides an outline of nonproliferation rules designed to maintain WMD out of the arms of jihadists
- Conducts a groundbreaking quantitative empirical research of jihadist behavior
- Elicits top specialists’ estimates of the long run WMD danger from jihadists
Leading overseas specialists essentially differentiate among peaceable Muslims and jihadists, exploring how jihadists translate their severe and violent ideology into technique. additionally they concentrate on WMD objective choice and the unfold of WMD wisdom in jihadist groups. with out sensationalism, this multidimensional overview provides a heightened point of class to our realizing of the customers for and nature of jihadist WMD terrorism.
About the Editors
Gary Ackerman is learn Director of the nationwide Consortium for the research of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), a division of fatherland safety nationwide heart of Excellence dependent on the collage of Maryland. His examine paintings specializes in chance overview and terrorism regarding unconventional weapons.
Jeremy Tamsett is a specialist for Henley-Putnam college and an analyst on the middle for Terrorism and Intelligence experiences (CETIS), a study heart devoted to choosing, larger comprehending, and safely assessing the current and destiny safeguard threats stemming from a number of violence-prone extremists and their enablers. He has served as undertaking supervisor for the U.S. govt funded serious Infrastructure Terrorist assault database and worldwide Terrorism Database (GTD).
