How to Build a Nuclear Bomb: And Other Weapons of Mass Destruction

How to Build a Nuclear Bomb: And Other Weapons of Mass Destruction

by Frank Barnaby (Author)

Synopsis

Weapons of mass destruction are the greatest threat to national security in the twenty-first century. Frank Barnaby, nuclear weapons and terrorism expert, describes in straightforward, non-sensational terms what is involved when a state or a terrorist group sets out to make a weapon of mass destruction - biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear. But How to Build a Nuclear Bomb is not a collection of scare stories- Barnaby explains what a weapon of mass destruction is, what it is capable of doing, and what is needed to produce one and argues that counter-terrorist measures urgently need to be stepped up to meet the challenges of a new era of international terror.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 22 Jul 2004

ISBN 10: 1862076774
ISBN 13: 9781862076778

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'The next generation of terrorists, rather than going for little dramas, will go for the big one...something so horrific that it gets into the Guinness Book of Records for terrorism.' Richard Holbrooke, former US ambassador to the UN, November 2001
Author Bio
Frank Barnaby is a nuclear physicist by training. He worked at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston and was Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) from 1971 to 1981. He currently works for the Oxford Research Group on research into military technology, nuclear energy, and the terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction.