Emerging Advance Weapons Technology of Terrorist by Utilizing Electronic Technology : Monogram for Law Enforcement

By MR James C Lyman

Computers have become so small, so cheap, so available and so easy to use . . . that you can actually make grenade fuzes with them. Readily available electronic technology, in particular microprocessors, will give terrorists very sophisticated and devastatingly effective weapons, yet are low-cost while easy to build and use. For the last century, weapons for terrorists have changed little from bomb devices using black powder with a crude timer such as a candle. However, the prevalence of microprocessor technology, both in hardware devices and the skills to use this technology, represents a pending revolution in the weapons emerging for use by terrorist. This technology will allow terrorist groups, both domestic and international, to have weapons that are easy to use, while easy to covertly manufacture, but capable of inflicting damages in excess of millions of dollars, yet costing just hundreds of dollars. This disparage represents a real force multiplier which can give terrorist organizations the real power to cripple nations. This technology can give weapons ranging from drop deployable anti-personnel mines, to GPS based suicide bombers, to cruise missiles capable of accurately striking targets hundreds of miles away. The wide range, low-cost microprocessor technology available to everyone today will allow terrorist to have truly smart weapons. Additionally, microprocessor-based product designs typically have a very fast development and evolution time, where a design can quickly change and adapt to a new environment. This is the power of software-based machines in which the machine is actually the software inside the computer that can quickly and easily be changed or added to, thereby making a new machine with new features and abilities. This ability to quickly change and adapt applies equally to terrorist weapons utilizing microprocessor-based technology in their designs. With this ability to quickly design, develop and modify their weapons, terrorists may be able to conduct their own "blitzkrieg" war against established governments where they are able to change and adapt faster than law enforcement can. This would leave law enforcement always behind the power curve just trying to catchup and therefore making little progress in defeating the terrorist. Like German blitzkrieg in 1940, terrorists could be an over whelming power to try and defeat.Being on the vanguard of counter terrorism, bomb technicians and investigators need to assimilate this new weapon technology prior to actually encountering it in the field. The best way to avoid being behind the power curve of technology is to be ahead at the start. This monogram gives the bomb technician and investigator a basic understanding of this emerging weapon technology, by explaining the basics of computers/microprocessors and using examples of terrorist weapons now possible with this technology, law enforcement can gain an understanding of just what they may encounter in the near future.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1484932692
• ISBN13: 9781484932698
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.5" x 8.0"