Chemicals Used for Illegal Purposes helps hazmat professionals and others determine if chemicals at a suspicious site could be used to make illegal substances such as drugs, explosives, pyrotechnics, nerve agents, and other toxins. It profiles dangerous chemicals, covering their appearance, smell, incompatibilities, and identification tests.

This book offers a new interpretation and original evidence on the politics of change in Ireland, north and south, since 1969.

This book was published as a special issue in Irish Political Studies.

This book examines the ethical and intellectual issues and political dilemmas associated with attempts to establish formal humanitarian limits on weaponry.

This book collects lectures of an international NATO-Russian Advanced Research Workshop on Detection and Disposal of Improvised Explosives (IE) used by terrorists. The disposal of IE is especially dangerous, because they are often much more unstable and mechanically more sensitive than commercial or military explosives. This text covers detection of explosives by different analytical methods and the different shape and compositions of the explosive charge, and offers up-to-date advice on handling and disposal.

This book collects lectures of an international NATO-Russian Advanced Research Workshop on Detection and Disposal of Improvised Explosives (IE) used by terrorists. The disposal of IE is especially dangerous, because they are often much more unstable and mechanically more sensitive than commercial or military explosives. This text covers detection of explosives by different analytical methods and the different shape and compositions of the explosive charge, and offers up-to-date advice on handling and disposal.

This special issue examines the factors that are likely to shape nuclear weapons proliferation over the next decade.

This edited book presents a collection of perspectives, both Western and non-Western, on the comparative dynamics of and responses to terrorism post-9/11.