{"product_id":"the-nuclear-terrorism-threat-an-organisational-approach-9780367711474","title":"The Nuclear Terrorism Threat: An Organisational Approach","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Brecht Volders\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: International Relations - Arms Control\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the threat of a terrorist organisation constructing and detonating a nuclear bomb.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of particular interest to students of nuclear proliferation, terrorism studies, international organisations, and security studies in general.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45242255868055,"sku":"9780367711474","price":3486.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780367711474.webp?v=1769231619","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-nuclear-terrorism-threat-an-organisational-approach-9780367711474","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}