The terrorist scourge -- Birthing modern terror -- Tradecraft: targets, tactics, and tools -- Collecting cash and recruits -- Al-Qaeda: terror central -- Terror hot spots -- Global terror, inc -- Tackling terrorism -- Spreading super weapons -- Mushroom clouds and missiles -- Gas and bugs -- Specter of superterrorism -- Preventing proliferation -- Iran: Mullahs of Mayhem -- North Korea: Nukes "R" Us -- Syria: Baathists behaving badly -- Rolling back rogues.