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       Contents

Summary

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Threat of Nuclear Jihad in Central Asia and Russia

Chapter 2 The Prospect of Bioterrorism: The Threat of Pathogen, Biting Insects and Dirty Bomb

       Chapter 3 Nuclear Jihad in Central Asia and Russia: Foreign Fighters, the ISIS, Chechens Extremists, Katibat-i-Imam Bukhari Group, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and the Al Nusra Front

       Chapter 4 ISIS in Pakistan: A Critical Analysis of Factors and Implications of ISIS Recruitments and Concept of Jihad-Bil-Nikah

       Dr. Yunis Khushi

       Chapter 5 Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Terrorism in Central Asia and Russia: AlQaeda, the ISIS Affiliated Groups and Security of Sensitive Biological Weapons Facilities

       Edward Lemon Vera Mironova William Tobey

       Chapter 6 The Current State of Bioterrorist Attack Surveillance and Preparedness in the US

       Oliver Grundmann

       Chapter 7 Biothreats and Bacterial Warfare Agents

       Arun Kumar R, Nishanth T, Ravi Teja Y and Sathish Kumar D

       Chapter 8 Bioterrorism: An Emerging Global Health Threat

       Syra S. Madad

       Chapter 9 Biologic, Chemical, and Radiation Terrorism Review

       Mollie Williams and Daniel C. Sizemore

       Chapter 10 Assessing Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Threats to the Food Supply-Chain

       Stephanie Meulenbelt

       Chapter 11 Preventing Nuclear War: A Professional Responsibility for Physicians

       Ira Helfand, MD, Antti Junkari, BM, and Ogebe Onazi, MD

       Postscript

       Notes to Chapters

       Bibliography

       Index

Summary

      The return of terrorists from Syria Iraq and Libya is a new threat in Europe as these newly recruited jihadists know the constitution of dirty bomb and Nuclear Explosice Devices. Recent developments in Central Asia and the establishment of the ISIS networks in Caucasus region and Central Europe have put jihadisn and radicalization back on Russian and European security agenda. Russia and China have already questioned the threat of the existence of US biological weapons laboratories in Central Asia. The danger of nuclear terrorism is intensifying by the day. Recent military technological deployments in Russia and the United States, and China’s possible nuclear test amid global fight against coronavirus have diverted the attention of nuclear and technology expert to the collateral damage of nuclear war in near future.

      There is different perception that the future wars will wipeout some states and their geographycal and social stratification. Modern technologies are continuing to influence the nature of nuclear war. The worst-case scenario also cannot be ruled out as international concern over nuclear terrorism has grown in 2020, and this has driven a broad spectrum of efforts to strengthen nuclear security globally. Russia is a leading power in developing new military technologies, while President Vladimir Putin once said that modern equipment made up 82 percent of Russia’s nuclear triad: “our equipment must be better than the world’s best if we want to come out as the winners.”

      Modern military technologies have changed effectiveness of operations in the battlefields. The use of some newly invented weapons in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq added to the pain of civil society in Russia, Europe and the United States. The introduction and use of these technologies is understood as a series of qualitative changes in mobility of bigger armies. Security Forces have become technologically complex. Analysts Maxim Suchkov, Sim Tack (The Future of War, Valdai Discussion Club Report, August 2019) have noted some important aspects of modern future war and its impacts on modern society:

      “The evolution of technologies is the first and perhaps main element where public perceptions are concerned. However, with all their importance, technologies are only able to foster change in tandem with other components. Their emergence and subsequent introduction in the armed forces facilitates the development of relevant skills and capabilities, which in turn stimulate the emergence of new procedures to harness their potential. The political antagonisms of the modern world have reached a degree that is indeed alarming. No less destabilizing than the lowered pain threshold that used to guard against the use of force or wars between the states – is the visible imbalance between the advancing technological warfare capabilities and the lack of practical experience in using these technologies. This is one of the reasons why the contours of a large-scale military clash between major or comparable powers5 are still unclear.......Nevertheless, significant changes are taking place on the tacticaloperational level, changes that must not be ignored if we want to form the correct idea of what war will be in the future. It is necessary to adapt these changes to the current varieties of warfare in order to minimize losses and achieve more success in military operations. Drones have fared better than anything else in this sense, being an effective tool for reducing personnel