The Ultimate Terrorists - Hardcover

Stern, Jessica

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674617908 ISBN 13: 9780674617902

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1999

Synopsis

As bad as they are, why aren't terrorists worse? With biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons at hand, they easily could be. And, as this chilling book suggests, they soon may well be. A former member of the National Security Council staff, Jessica Stern guides us expertly through a post-Cold War world in which the threat of all-out nuclear war, devastating but highly unlikely, is being replaced by the less costly but much more imminent threat of terrorist attacks with weapons of mass destruction.

According to Stern

Written from an insider's perspective, The Ultimate Terrorists depicts a not-very-distant future in which both independent and state-sponsored terrorism using weapons of mass destruction could actually occur. But Stern also holds out hope for new technologies that might combat this trend, and for legal and political remedies that would improve public safety without compromising basic constitutional rights.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Jessica Stern sounds an important alarm in responsible fashion. A good read as well as good scholarship. I hope her alarm is widely heard.-Anthony Lake, former National Security Advisor

About the Author:

Jessica Stern teaches at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and is a former member of the staff of the National Security Council, where she ran the Nuclear Smuggling Interagency group as director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian affairs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0674617908
• ISBN 13: 9780674617902
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224