TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maurer,Stephen M.
AU  - Ackerman,Gary
AU  - Bale,Jeffrey
AU  - Rutherford,George W.
AU  - Labov,Simon
AU  - Slezak,Thomas R.
AU  - Stoutland,Page O.
AU  - Nacht,Michael
AU  - Henríquez,Blas Peréz
AU  - Jr,Richard M.Wheeler
TI  - WMD Terrorism: Science and Policy Choices
T2  - The MIT Press Series
SN  - 9780262259064
AV  - U793.W2 2009 
U1  - 363.325/3 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Weapons of mass destruction
KW  - Weapons of mass destruction -- Government policy -- United States
KW  - Terrorism -- United States -- Prevention
KW  - Terrorism -- Government policy -- United States
KW  - National security -- United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Worrying about WMD Terrorism -- 2 Profiling the WMD Terrorist Threat -- 3 Technologies of Evil: Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Weapons -- 4 The New Bioweapons: Infectious and Engineered Diseases -- 5 The Indispensable Technology: Detectors for Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical WMD -- 7 Setting Priorities: Assessing Threats and Identifying Cost-Effective Responses to WMD Terrorism -- 8 Weapons of Mass Destruction: Are Our Political Institutions Adapting? -- 9 Responding to WMD Terrorism Threats: The Role of Insurance Markets -- 10 The Fire Next Time: Managing Large Urban Fires -- 11 Public Health Preparedness for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Weapons -- 12 Recovering from Nuclear and Radiological Attacks -- 13 Remediation Following Chemical and Biological Attacks -- 14 Estimating the Economic Impacts of WMD Attacks -- 15 Squeezing Value from Homeland Security Research: Designing Better R&amp -- D Incentives -- 16 Fear Itself: Predicting and Managing Public Response to a WMD Attack -- 17 Preventing WMD Terrorism -- 18 Summing Up -- Table of Abbreviations -- References -- Selected Web Sites -- Contributors -- Index
N2  - This first comprehensive overview of what scientists and scholars know about WMD terrorism clears away many of the misconceptions that surround this topic
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3339046
ER  -