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Nuclear terror : the bomb and other weapons of mass destruction in the wrong hands

Title: Nuclear terror : the bomb and other weapons of mass destruction in the wrong hands / Al J. Venter.
Author: Venter, Al J.
Publication: [Barnsley], Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2018.

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Description

xx, 289 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"These are frightening times for us all: Sarin nerve gas being sprayed on innocent civilians in Syria, threats that biological warfare agents might be spread about on the New York Subway and the most terrifying of all, three dirty bomb attacks thwarted in Russia. The reality of all these developments is that the environment in which we live today is being seriously threatened by the calculated use of weapons of mass destruction, and from a variety of dissident sources. Many rogue nations have attempted to build the bomb, an enormously complex task. So far only Pakistan and North Korea have succeeded, with Iran right now on the cusp of making that breakthrough. South Africa built six atom bombs in the 1970/1980s but with British, American and help from the International Atomic Energy Agency dismantled both the weapons and the entire program shortly before Nelson Mandela came to power. In Nuclear Terror, Venter assesses the developments over the past 10 years of different countries in their attempts to build a nuclear program. Not inflammatory, or scaremongering, Venter takes an objective stance in chronicling these recent developments overseas and adds another valuable contribution to this conversation."--Publisher description.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 18-5807

ISBN

1526723042
9781526723048

OCLC

991216250

Author

Venter, Al J., author.

Title

Nuclear terror : the bomb and other weapons of mass destruction in the wrong hands / Al J. Venter.

Publisher

[Barnsley], Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2018.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-5807

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