Avoiding Armageddon : our future, our choice / Martin Schram.
Schram, Martin.; Ted Turner Documentaries (Firm)
2003
JZ5675 .S37 2003 (Mapit)
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Title Avoiding Armageddon : our future, our choice / Martin Schram.
Author Schram, Martin.
ISBN 0465072550 (alk. paper)
Imprint New York : Basic Books, c2003.
Language English
Description xi, 356 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number JZ5675 .S37 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 327.1/74
Summary A deadly combination of shortsighted mistakes by Western governments, chaos in the former Soviet Union, and virulent international terrorism has succeeded in making us far more vulnerable than many would like to admit. Published in conjunction with the eight-hour PBS series this book focuses our attention like never before on threats posed by terrorism and unsecured weapons of mass destruction. It delves into an exploration of those who endanger our national interest, the forms their threat might take, and what can be done to avert the kinds of disasters likely to ensue. Drawing on numerous interviews with world leaders, experts, former terrorist and would-be nuclear thieves, the author explains how and why biological, chemical, and nuclear warfare may very well be our next nightmare.
Note "Companion to the PBS series from Ted Turner Documentaries"--t.p.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-338) and index.
Added Corporate Author Ted Turner Documentaries (Firm)
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Part 1. Reversing the nuclear race : sprinting again terrorists, tempers and time. Chap. 1. Nuclear thieves
Chap. 2. Nuclear nightmares
Chap. 3. A proliferator's history of nuclear proliferation : nav̐et ̌and greed
Chap. 4. South Asia's nuclear crisis : how "atoms for peace" became "atoms for war"
Chap. 5. Nuclear wasteland
Chap. 6. Today's nuclear solutions : the birth of a nation: securing an old enemy's weapons
Chap. 7. Just minutes to decide
Chap. 8. Future nuclear solutions : buying time
Part 2. Zeroing in on silent killers : the urgent unmaking of a century of chemical and biological arsenals. Chap. 9. The horror of Halabja
Chap. 10. When history blinked : a tale of chemical weapons bans, loopholes and belated resolve
Chap. 11. Terror in Tokyo
Chap. 12. Secret sprayings : U.S. gas experiments used cities, schoolkids and sailors
Chap. 13. Chemical crisis and response : a challenge of destruction
Chap. 14. East meets west : germ warfare's historic twists and turns
Chap. 15. Russian bio-shock : Soviet secrets dumbfound U.S. intelligence
Chap. 16. Threats : bio-terrorism USA: a few grams fill a nation with fear
Part 3. Terror : how mass murder became an almighty act. Chap. 17. On the fly with Osama
Chap. 18. Terrorism through the ages : evolution and revolution
Chap. 19. Suicide bombers : what makes them tick
Part 4. Toward feeling safe again. Chap. 20. Securing homelands
Chap. 21. Nation-building for tomorrow's national security
Chap. 22. Combating AIDS as a national security crisis
Chap. 23. Toward a global Marshall Plan
Chap. 24. Nuclear future : can we get down to zero?
Chap. 25. What leaders and citizens can do.

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