RT Book, Section
A1 Grey, Michael R.
A1 Spaeth, Kenneth R.
SR Print(0)
ID 2740000
T1 Chapter 1. Introduction to Terrorism and Bioterrorism
T2 The Bioterrorism Sourcebook
YR 2006
FD 2006
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071440868
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=2740000
RD 2021/05/15
AB The  modern  understanding  of  the  word  “terror”  dates  from  the  Reign  of  Terror  following  the  French  Revolution  of  1789.  One  of  the  key  figures  in  the  Revolutionary  Council—the  governing  body  responsible  for  thousands  of  deaths  by  guillotine—was  Maximilien  Robespierre  (1758–1794).  Robespierre’s  observation  that  “Terror  is  nothing  more  than  justice,  prompt,  severe,  inflexible;  it  is  therefore  an  emanation  of  virtue”  rings  familiar  to  anyone  who  has  read  or  listened  to  the  righteous  rhetoric  of  terrorist  organizations,  be  they  Islamic  militant  groups,  the  Protestant  and  Catholic  factions  in  Northern  Ireland’s  civil  strife,  or  even  in  the  words  of  homegrown  terrorists  like  Timothy  McVeigh.  There  are  numerous  examples  that  fit  this  definition  of  terrorism  throughout  both  modern  and  ancient  history.