Connections Can Be Toxic: Terrorist Organizational Factors and the Pursuit of CBRN Weapons
Despite plentiful scholarship relating to the prospect of terrorists utilizing chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) weapons, little of this work is both quanti tative in nature and global in scope. Leveraging open-source data, this study quantita tively explores factors influencing the terrorist organizational decision to pursue CBRN weapons. The findings suggest that organizations embedded in alliance structures and basedinauthoritariancountrieswithrelatively strong connections toaglobalizedworld are morelikely to seek to develop or acquire CBRNweapons.Contrarytopreviousqual itative studies, the present study failed to find a significant relationship between CBRN pursuit and religious ideology
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