Erica Pearson
Contributor
Website : SAGE Publications
Writer and editor, reporter for the New York Daily News. Her contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Terrorism (2011) formed the basis for her contributions to Britannica.
Primary Contributions (13)
1986 West Berlin discotheque bombing, attack carried out on April 5, 1986, in West Berlin, in which Libyan agents detonated a bomb at the La Belle discotheque, a nightclub frequented by U.S. soldiers stationed in Germany during the Cold War. The bomb, packed with plastic explosives and shrapnel,…
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Publications (1)
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism, Second Edition (June 2011)
Six years after publication of the first edition of the best-selling Encyclopedia of Terrorism, much has changed on the national security scene. Despite the dark promises of Osama bin Laden following the 9/11 attacks, the United States has not experienced any major domestic terror incidents. Al-Qaeda itself is believed to be a severely crippled organization. But while U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq--not to mention the arrival of the Obama administration, a new balance of power within...
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