Magnus Ranstorp is Research Director at the Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies the Swedish National Defence College. Magnus Normark is a Research Analyst at the Division of CBRN Defence and Security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency.

• Introduction Part 1: The Status of CBRN Terrorism Research 1. Defining Knowledge Gaps Within CBRN Terrorism Research Part 2: AQ Motivations/Incentives for CBRN-Terrorism? 2. WMD and the Four Dimensions of Al-Qa’ida 3. Al-Qaeda’s thinking on CBRN: A Case Study Part 3: CBRN, Capacity Building and Proliferation 4. Indicators of Chemical Terrorism 5. Capacity-Building and Proliferation Biological Terrorism 6. Terrorism and Potential Biological Warfare Agents 7. Influence Diagram Analysis of Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism Part 4: CRBN and Terrorism: Dilemmas of Prediction 8. Approaching Threat Convergence from an Intelligence Perspective 9. Terrifying Landscapes: Understanding Motivations of Non-State Actors to Acquire and/or Use Weapons of Mass Destruction 10. Conclusions

Magnus Ranstorp is Research Director at the Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies the Swedish National Defence College. Magnus Normark is a Research Analyst at the Division of CBRN Defence and Security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency.

• Introduction Part 1: The Status of CBRN Terrorism Research 1. Defining Knowledge Gaps Within CBRN Terrorism Research Part 2: AQ Motivations/Incentives for CBRN-Terrorism? 2. WMD and the Four Dimensions of Al-Qa’ida 3. Al-Qaeda’s thinking on CBRN: A Case Study Part 3: CBRN, Capacity Building and Proliferation 4. Indicators of Chemical Terrorism 5. Capacity-Building and Proliferation Biological Terrorism 6. Terrorism and Potential Biological Warfare Agents 7. Influence Diagram Analysis of Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism Part 4: CRBN and Terrorism: Dilemmas of Prediction 8. Approaching Threat Convergence from an Intelligence Perspective 9. Terrifying Landscapes: Understanding Motivations of Non-State Actors to Acquire and/or Use Weapons of Mass Destruction 10. Conclusions

Magnus Ranstorp is Research Director at the Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies the Swedish National Defence College. Magnus Normark is a Research Analyst at the Division of CBRN Defence and Security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency.

• Introduction Part 1: The Status of CBRN Terrorism Research 1. Defining Knowledge Gaps Within CBRN Terrorism Research Part 2: AQ Motivations/Incentives for CBRN-Terrorism? 2. WMD and the Four Dimensions of Al-Qa’ida 3. Al-Qaeda’s thinking on CBRN: A Case Study Part 3: CBRN, Capacity Building and Proliferation 4. Indicators of Chemical Terrorism 5. Capacity-Building and Proliferation Biological Terrorism 6. Terrorism and Potential Biological Warfare Agents 7. Influence Diagram Analysis of Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism Part 4: CRBN and Terrorism: Dilemmas of Prediction 8. Approaching Threat Convergence from an Intelligence Perspective 9. Terrifying Landscapes: Understanding Motivations of Non-State Actors to Acquire and/or Use Weapons of Mass Destruction 10. Conclusions