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Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons (2000) is a MIT Press book edited by Jonathan B. Tucker which has twelve chapters by different authors discussing use of chemical and biological weapons by terrorists from 1946 to 1998. Only three groups caused "mass casualties" and only one attack (the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack) approached terrorism. The book therefore shows that the groups were not able to achieve much damage with these unconventional weapons, contrary to warnings of an extreme threat.

References

  1. Cole, Leonard A. (1 September 2000). "CBW terrorism, deconstructed". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 56 (5): 58–59. doi:10.2968/056005015.
  2. "Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons". 28 January 2009. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  3. Finn, J. T. (1 September 2000). "SECURITY POLICY: Terrorists and Toxins". Science. 289 (5484): 1479. doi:10.1126/science.289.5484.1479. S2CID 153174604.
  4. Brower, Jennifer L. (17 May 2016). "Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist use of Chemical and Biological Weapons - Jonathan B. Tucker, ed. Cambridge, Massachusetts:MIT Press, 2000, 303 pp. US$24.00 paper. ISBN 0-262-70071-9. MIT Press, 5 Cambridge Ctr., Suite 4, Cambridge, MA 02142-1493, USA". Politics and the Life Sciences. 20 (1): 98–99. doi:10.1017/S0730938400005256. S2CID 152253392.
  5. Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons Grosscup, Beau.  Perspectives on Political Science; Philadelphia Vol. 29, Iss. 4, (Fall 2000): 248.
  6. Toxic Terror Citation metadata Author: John T. Finn Date: Sept. 1, 2000 From: Science(Vol. 289, Issue 5484)
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