US Narratives of Nuclear Terrorism Since 9/11 Worst-Case Scenarios /

• Main Author: Seed, David (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Terrorism.; Political violence.; Terrorism and Political Violence.

This study examines the US fiction and related films which makes a series of interventions in the cultural debate over the threat of nuclear terrorism. It traces the beginnings of this anxiety from the 1970s, which increased during the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The traumatic even...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Beginnings
• 3. Pre-Emptive Investigations
• 4. Suitcase Nukes
• 5. After the Blast
• 6. Apocalyptic Visions
• 7. EMP and Cyberterrorism
• 8. Bioterrorism.