Combating Terrorism Need For Comprehensive Threat And Risk Assessments Of Chemical And Biological Attacks Report To Congressional Requesters

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428973516
Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book Combating terrorism need for comprehensive threat and risk assessments of chemical and biological attacks : report to congressional requesters written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chemical and biological experts and intelligence agency officials believe that the ease or difficulty for terrorists to cause mass casualties with an improvised chemical or biological weapon or device depends on the chemical or biological agent selected. Experts from the scientific, intelligence, and law enforcement communities told us that terrorists do not need sophisticated knowledge or dissemination methods to use toxic industrial chemicals such as chlorine. In contrast, terrorists would need a relatively high degree of sophistication to successfully cause mass casualties with some other chemical and most biological agents. Specialized knowledge would be needed to acquire the right biological agent or precursor chemicals,3 process the chemical or biological agent, improvise a weapon or device, and effectively disseminate the agent to cause mass casualties. Throughout the different stages of the process, terrorists would run the risk of hurting themselves and of being detected and would have to overcome technical and operational challenges. Some virulent biological agents and precursor chemicals are difficult to obtain, and others are difficult to process or produce, especially in the quantities needed to cause mass casualties. In addition, effective dissemination of chemical and biological agents can be disrupted by environmental and meteorological factors. Terrorists with less sophistication could make a chemical or biological weapon and disseminate agents, but these would be less likely to cause mass casualties.

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Total Pages : 96 pages
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Download or read book COMBATING TERRORISM: ASSESSING THE THREAT OF A BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS ATTACK... HEARING... COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428981128
Total Pages : 123 pages
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Download or read book Assessing the threat first annual report to the President and the Congress of the Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dana A. Shea
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781594542008
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small-scale Terrorist Attacks Using Chemical and Biological Agents written by Dana A. Shea and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a means of assessing the relative threat from terrorist-use of individual chemical, biological, and toxin agents. It focuses on small-scale, targeted chemical and biological attacks, rather than mass-casualty attacks. The framework considers the elements of access, public health impact, medical treatment, prophylaxis, and dissemination. Other factors that may affect potential use by terrorists include the range of lethality, covert employment of an agent, and the availability of dual-use technologies. The results of this book may be useful in addressing the threat these agents pose, for example by indicating priorities for countermeasure funding. Other uses include weighing the potential effectiveness of policy options, assessing threat reduction approaches to specific agents, and serving as a resource for developing other specialised frameworks.

Author : Jonathan B. Tucker
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262700719
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toxic Terror written by Jonathan B. Tucker and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000-02-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In-depth case studies of twelve terrorist groups and individuals who, from 1946 to 1998, allegedly acquired or employed CBW agents. Policymakers, scholars, and the news media have been alarmed by the potential for chemical and biological weapons (CBW) terrorism, and the U.S. Congress has allocated billions of dollars for counterterrorism and "consequence management" programs. Driving these concerns are the global spread of scientific knowledge and technology relevant to CBW terrorism and the vulnerability of civilian populations to chemical and biological attacks. Notably lacking from the analysis, however, has been a careful assessment of the terrorists themselves. What types of terrorist groups or individuals are both capable of acquiring chemical and biological weapons and motivated to use them, and for what purposes? Further, what types of toxic agents would probably be produced, and how would they be delivered? Answers to these questions would enable policymakers to prepare for the most likely contingencies. To this end, Toxic Terror provides in-depth case studies of twelve terrorist groups and individuals who, from 1946 to 1998, allegedly acquired or employed CBW agents. The cases were researched from primary sources, including court documents, interviews, and declassified government files. By comparing the twelve cases, the book identifies characteristic motivations and patterns of behavior associated with CBW terrorism and provides an empirical basis for prudent, cost-effective strategies of prevention and response.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
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Total Pages : 72 pages
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Download or read book Bioterrorism--domestic Weapons of Mass Destruction written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : U S Government Accountability Office (G
Publisher : BiblioGov
ISBN 13 : 9781289092986
Total Pages : 44 pages
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Download or read book Combating Terrorism written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.

Author : Yonah Alexander
Publisher : Terrorism Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Super Terrorism written by Yonah Alexander and published by Terrorism Library. This book was released on 2001 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future is likely to witness a growing number of mass-destruction acts carried out by ideologically motivated, loosely organized, terrorist networks that operate independently of state sponsorship and have access to the funding, materials, and increasing technological sophistication. While there is agreement on the possible consequences of super terrorism, there has been robust disagreement on the kind of investment that should be made in preparedness and response to biological, chemical, and nuclear terrorist attacks.

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Combating Terrorism written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428973494
Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book Combating terrorism analysis of potential emergency response equipment and sustainment costs : report to congressional requesters written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: