Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) are the greatest threat to national security in the twenty-first century. How to Build a Nuclear Bomb explains what it takes for a rogue state or terrorist group to obtain and use them. But nuclear weapons and terrorism expert Frank Barnaby has not written a collection of scare stories. His purpose in How to Build a Nuclear Bomb is to counteract the "misinformation, often put out for propaganda purposes" and general ignorance on this most urgent of topics. Barnaby 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, what they are capable of doing, and what is needed to produce one. By outlining the parameters of the problem, Barnaby is able to accurately gauge the threat that WMD pose, arguing that counterterrorist measures urgently need to be stepped up to meet the challenges of a new era of international terror.
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"A straightforward and unhysterical guide to some of the more hair-raising nuclear, chemical and biological threats that have dominated the post-11 September world."
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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.
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A reference book which does not delve into the exhausting details of the WMD technology but presents in a clear and easy to read text all the essential information. Of course the title is somehow misleading, as the book is not a manual for nuclear bomb producers. The strong point of the book is that it is not necessary for someone to have a PhD in Physics, Bilogy or Chemistry in order to understand the working principles of WMD.
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A decent study of the problem of WMD,
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This review is from: How to Build a Nuclear Bomb: And Other Weapons of Mass Destruction (Nation Books) (Paperback)
I have read quite a lot on this subject so I almost did not buy it because I thought from a quickscan that I knew almost all this stuff and it would be too simple.However I certainly learnt much from it. If you are looking for a good book to state the current world situation this book will do the trick in a quite readable form.
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An ordeal to read,
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I thought at only 256 pages this book would be a quick read. Instead, it has about 40-50 pages of interesting information followed by either total repetition of previous information or extremely simplistic musings. (I hate not finishing a book, but this one was like reading a incoherant text book,
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civil plutonium, centrifuge plant, plutonium oxide, gas centrifuges, plutonium metal, reactor fuel elements, supercritical mass, lethal area, fission chain reaction, enriched uranium, religious terrorists, nuclear terrorism, fission weapons, maraging steel, explosive yield, diffusion plant, nerve agent Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Korea, United States, Soviet Union, New York, South Africa, United Nations, Member States, Saudi Arabia, World Trade Center, Middle East, Second World War, Christian Identity, Enola Gay, First World War, Northern Ireland, Novaya Zemlya, Christian White Supremacists, Christmas Island, Geneva Protocol, Gulf War New!
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- Nuclear Radiation in Warfare by Joseph Rotblat on page 26, and Back Matter
- Porton Down: 75 Years of Chemical and Biological Research by Great Britain: Ministry of Defence in Front Matter, and page 52
- Political Violence (Collected seminar papers) in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Terrorism and the Liberal State by Paul Wilkinson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Preventing Biological Warfare: The Failure of American Leadership by Malcolm R. Dando in Back Matter
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