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The Nuclear Terrorism Threat - An Organisational Approach (Hardcover)
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The Nuclear Terrorism Threat - An Organisational Approach (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Global Security Studies
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This book examines the threat of a terrorist organisation
constructing and detonating a nuclear bomb. It explores the role
and impact of the organisational design of a terrorist organisation
in implementing a nuclear terrorism plot. In order to do so, the
work builds on the organisational analogy between an assumed
nuclear terrorism scenario and four case studies as follows: the
construction of the first atomic bombs at Los Alamos; South
Africa's Peaceful Nuclear Explosives (PNE) program; Aum Shinrikyo's
chemical-biological armament activities; and Al Qaeda's
implementation of the 9/11 attacks. Extrapolating insights from
these case studies, this book introduces the idea of an
effectiveness-efficiency trade-off. On the one hand, it will be
argued that a more organic organisational design is likely to
benefit the effective implementation of a nuclear terrorism
project. On the other hand, this type of organic organisational
design is also likely to simultaneously constitute an inefficient
way for a terrorist organisation to guarantee its operational and
organisational security. It follows, then, that the implementation
of a nuclear terrorism plot via an organic organisational design is
also likely to be an inefficient strategy for a terrorist
organisation to achieve its strategic and political goals. This
idea of an effectiveness-efficiency trade-off provides us with a
tool to strengthen the comprehensive nature of future nuclear
terrorism threat assessments and sheds new light on the ongoing
debates within the nuclear terrorism literature. This book will be
of particular interest to students of nuclear proliferation,
terrorism studies, international organisations, and security
studies in general.
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