CBRN terrorism obsession prior to 9/11
dc.contributor.advisor | Dahl, Erik | |
dc.contributor.author | Stover, William. | |
dc.date | December 2011 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-08-22T15:33:18Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-08-22T15:33:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-12 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10945/10702 | |
dc.description.abstract | 9/11 highlighted failures by both the intelligence and policymaking communities, and these failures were identified by the 9/11 Commission. These failures only related to the inability of the intelligence community to imagine how terrorists might use aircraft as a suicide vehicle, and how politicians failed to eliminate the al-Qaeda threat and Osama bin Laden. Completely unnoticed by the 9/11 Commission, but acknowledged by many within the academic community, was a failure of academia to understand the threat by al-Qaeda and focus too much on weapons of mass destruction terrorism. This thesis examines the question: To what extent were the academic, policymaking, and intelligence communities obsessed with chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) terrorism prior to 9/11? The thesis concludes that CBRN terrorism was a concern, but was not the greatest national security threat prior to 9/11. | en_US |
dc.description.uri | http://archive.org/details/cbrnterrorismobs1094510702 | |
dc.format.extent | xvi, 85 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School | en_US |
dc.rights | This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States. | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Weapons of mass destruction. | en_US |
dc.title | CBRN terrorism obsession prior to 9/11 | en_US |
dc.contributor.secondreader | Moran, Daniel | |
dc.contributor.department | National Security Affairs (NSA) | |
dc.subject.author | Chemical | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Biological | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Radiological | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; weapons of mass destruction (WMD) terrorism; | en_US |
dc.description.service | US Air Force (USAF) author | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.name | M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.level | Masters | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.discipline | Homeland Security and Defense | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.grantor | Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.) | en_US |
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