Question

What factors might explain the fact that we have not yet seen a WMD terrorist attack of great significance? Book name Weapons of Mass Destruction and terrorism by james j.f. forest and Russel D. Howards pg 85-297 Second Edition

Answer 1

The factors that might explain the fact that we have not yet seen a weapon of mass destruction attack of great significance in the book given by James Forest and Russel Howards include:

• The development of new and advanced weapons of mass destruction by many nations in the recent years as compared to the early years peloponnesian war between the Greeks and Persians. The Japanese Military group like Aum Shinrikiyo who used sarin gas in the tunnels.
• The requirement of tremendous infrastructure, money and facilties for the development of biological, nuclear and chemical weapons of mass destruction.
• The example includes the september 11 attacks after which many highhly sophisticated weapons have been developed by the nuclear organizations.
• Issues of cyber-terrorism and hacking has destroyed the potential of many countries.
• lack of interest insolving the nuclear related issues.
• Development of patriot act.
• There are several constrain theories which have obstructed the development of such weapons by the terrorist organizations like Technical constraints which include the CBRN complex weapons which are tough and complex to prepare. They are targeted weapons which hit specific targets at specific places within a range of distance of the preparation of distance of the use of weapons. These weapons are fragile and there are no specialists and qualified engineers in the terrorist organizations to prepare such weapons.
• The lack of facilities and lack of availability of nuclear organizations to prepare the nuclear weapons.
• Environmental contraints with pressure of various anti-proliferation rules and policies of nations which prohibits the sale and stealing of these weapons by the terrorist organizations. Difficulty in the transportation of these weapons to the terrorist organizations
• Strategic constraint theories and the policies of nations prohibits and bans the terrorist organizations from preparing such items and dangerous weapons of mass destructions.
• The geographical barriers which separates various domains and tough living conditions for acquiring the barren and mountain lands.
• The policies developed by government to analyze whether the supply and development of nuclear weapons to the terrorist organizations will be beneficial or it will bring about a catastrophic calamity with the destruction of the innocent people in the concerned race.