Devil'S Toy Box - Exposing and Defusing Promethean Terrorists (Hardcover)

A Promethean technology is one that allows someone of average resources, skills, and intelligence to carry out actions that were once only doable by governments, militaries, or institutions with considerable resources. Essentially, Promethean technologies allow users to create their own weapons of mass destruction from their home computer and deploy them globally with a keystroke. These emerging technologies are increasingly affordable and accessible - and are no more complicated to operate than a satellite TV control box or a smart phone. Although these technologies are a terrifying prospect, the more we know about these dangers, the better we can prepare to head them off. In The Devil's Toy Box, Andrew Fox lays out seven decades of preemptive analysis and shows that while homeland security has explored, in depth, the possible Promethean threats the world faces, it has failed to forecast the most likely attacks. Using actual scenarios Fox teaches how to predict future threats and how to forecast which ones are likely to be used by bad actors within the next five to ten years. Combining the skills of homeland security experts and the imaginations of speculative fiction writers, he then offers an analytical method to deter, counter, or abate these threats, rather than adopting an attitude of resigned fatalism.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2022
Authors:	Andrew Fox
Dimensions:	225 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-1-64012-479-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Theory of warfare & military science
LSN:	1-64012-479-9
Barcode:	9781640124790

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