Non-Conventional Terrorism - Assignment Example

Non-Conventional TerrorismIntroductionDuring the last decade non-conventional terrorism has become the most frightening of all terrorist strategy. In 1995, one of the acts of terrorism in which terrorists used non-conventional weapons (chemical) on their different places in Japan. Debates, discussions and different assessment on the likelihood of the usage of non-conventional weapons by the terrorists for the savage and excessive killing of many people came to an end at the time when terrorists use toxic gas (Sarin) began wafting through the tunnels of the subway system of Tokyo.

DiscussionThough the planning and execution of chemical weapon is difficult and time taking but nuclear terrorism which planning and execution techniques are the most difficult one among other types of non-conventional terrorisms. American Congress Office of Technological Assessment stated that the “the production of nuclear weapons is a more complicated process, it is most difficult to acquire such material and this process is more expensive (Levi, 2010).”Nuclear terrorism is a type of non-conventional terrorism in which terrorists use nuclear weapons in order to complete their mission of the savage and excessive killing of many people and mass destruction.

It also the use of fissile materials in an attack, e.g., an attack on a nuclear energy plant with the aim of causing widespread and/or permanent harm to the environment. Studies show that biological weapon can be devastatingly easy. During the fourteenth century the disease caused by the Tartars infected corpses over castle walls which results in the Black Death in which an approximated one third of the whole population got killed (Mahan & Griset, 2008).As the United States is playing a leading role in the war against terrorism and confronting with the terrorist in different parts of the world.

Therefore America might be the first target of the major terrorist organization which increases the risk of large scale use of bacteria or viruses or toxins (biological weapons) as a weapon of mass destruction against U.S (Department of Homeland Security, 2008). These biological weapons could be used by the terrorist as it is believed that this capability is within their reach. According to the studies terrorist would probably use anthrax against U.S; and if these terrorist organizations got succeeded in attacking any single city of America than this would kill hundreds of thousands of people (Department of Homeland Security, 2008).

This is sure that the terrorist organization would try their level best to acquire the most devastated weapons i.e. nuclear weapons, though this could be the most difficult task. According to the Director-General of Defense and Intelligence of United Kingdom, Mariot Leslie, “All nuclear weapons require many kilograms of nuclear material and there isn’t any technology which could make it possible to make a workable nuclear weapon. Therefore there is nothing to worry about minute nuclear weapons.

”ConclusionTherefore the greatest concern regarding non-conventional terrorism is the use of biological weapons on a large scale and the expected attack would be in the United States due to its leading role in the war against terrorism. They might use anthrax in the form of solids that are too small to be seen or suspend gas or liquid particles in the air. They could probably already have the extremely strong anthrax capability and just working on technical points, on the other hand their nuclear ambitions seem more far off.

ReferencesDepartment of Homeland Security. (2008). Testimony of Jeffrey W. Runge, MD before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology. [online] Retrieved from: http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/testimony/testimony_1216677175660.shtm.Levi, M. (2010). Impossibility of Nuclear Security – Council on Foreign Relations. [online] Retrieved from: http://www.cfr.org/publication/21884/impossibility_of_nuclear_security.html.Mahan, S.

, & Griset, P. L. (2008). Terrorism in perspective. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications.