America the Vulnerable
Author | : Joseph D. Douglass |
Publisher | : Free Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
SCOTT (copy 1) From the John Holmes Library collection.
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Author | : Joseph D. Douglass |
Publisher | : Free Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
SCOTT (copy 1) From the John Holmes Library collection.
Author | : United States Senate |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2020-01-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781655375521 |
Chemical attack on America: how vulnerable are we?: hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, April 27, 2005.
Author | : United States. Congress |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2018-02-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781985263499 |
Chemical attack on America : how vulnerable are we? : hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, April 27, 2005.
Author | : Richard A Falkenrath |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 1998-07-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0262561182 |
Nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) weapons delivered covertly by terrorists or hostile governments pose a significant and growing threat to the United States and other countries. Although the threat of NBC attack is widely recognized as a central national security issue, most analysts have assumed that the primary danger is military use by states in war, with traditional military means of delivery. The threat of covert attack has been imprudently neglected.Covert attack is hard to deter or prevent, and NBC weapons suitable for covert attack are available to a growing range of states and groups hostile to the United States. At the same time, constraints on their use appear to be eroding. This volume analyzes the nature and limits of the covert NBC threat and proposes a measured set of policy responses, focused on improving intelligence and consequence-management capabilities to reduce U.S. vulnerability.About the authors: Richard A. Falkenrath is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He served as Executive Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) and, before that, as a Research Fellow. He is the author and co-author of Shaping Europe's Military Order (1995), Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy (1996), America's Achilles' Heel:Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack (1998), and numerous journal articles and chapters of edited volumes. Falkenrath has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the German Society of Foreign Affairs (DGAP) in Bonn. He holds a PhD from the Department of War Studies, King's College, London, where he was a British Marshall Scholar, and is a summa cum laude graduate of Occidental College, Los Angeles, with degrees in economics and international relations. He is on leave in 2001-2002 and is currently serving as Director for Counterproliferation and Homeland Defense at the National Security Council.Bradley A. Thayer is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.
Author | : United States Government Us Army |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 796 |
Release | : 2016-11-13 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781540365859 |
Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare (2008) - a comprehensive source of the information available on chemical agents, this book will increase the level of preparedness and response capability of military and civilian practitioners responsible for chemical casualty care. Includes detailed explanations of chemical detectors and protection equipment, diagnosis, decontamination techniques, established and emerging countermeasures, and therapy techniques, as well as the history of chemical warfare and casualty management.
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1997-05-30 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0309174783 |
During the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. Army conducted atmospheric dispersion tests in many American cities using fluorescent particles of zinc cadmium sulfide (ZnCdS) to develop and verify meteorological models to estimate the dispersal of aerosols. Upon learning of the tests, many citizens and some public health officials in the affected cities raised concerns about the health consequences of the tests. This book assesses the public health effects of the Army's tests, including the toxicity of ZnCdS, the toxicity of surrogate cadmium compounds, the environmental fate of ZnCdS, the extent of public exposures from the dispersion tests, and the risks of such exposures.
Author | : Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 1999-03-12 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0309061954 |
The threat of domestic terrorism today looms larger than ever. Bombings at the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City's Federal Building, as well as nerve gas attacks in Japan, have made it tragically obvious that American civilians must be ready for terrorist attacks. What do we need to know to help emergency and medical personnel prepare for these attacks? Chemical and Biological Terrorism identifies the R&D efforts needed to implement recommendations in key areas: pre-incident intelligence, detection and identification of chemical and biological agents, protective clothing and equipment, early recognition that a population has been covertly exposed to a pathogen, mass casualty decontamination and triage, use of vaccines and pharmaceuticals, and the psychological effects of terror. Specific objectives for computer software development are also identified. The book addresses the differences between a biological and chemical attack, the distinct challenges to the military and civilian medical communities, and other broader issues. This book will be of critical interest to anyone involved in civilian preparedness for terrorist attack: planners, administrators, responders, medical professionals, public health and emergency personnel, and technology designers and engineers.
Author | : Joby Warrick |
Publisher | : Doubleday |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2021-02-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0385544472 |
In Red Line, Joby Warrick, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Black Flags, shares the thrilling unknown story of America’s mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons and keep them out of the hands of the Islamic State. In August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. When secret intelligence revealed that the dictator might resort to using chemical weapons, President Obama warned that doing so would cross “a red line.” Assad did it anyway, bombing the Damascus suburb of Ghouta with sarin gas, killing hundreds of civilians, and forcing Obama to decide if he would mire America in another unpopular war in the Middle East. When Russia offered to broker the removal of Syria’s chemical weapons, Obama leapt at the out. So began an electrifying race to find, remove, and destroy 1,300 tons of chemical weapons in the midst of a raging civil war. The extraordinary little-known effort is a triumph for the Americans, but soon Russia’s long game becomes clear: it will do anything to preserve Assad’s rule. As America’s ability to control events in Syria shrinks, the White House learns that ISIS, building its caliphate in Syria’s war-tossed territory, is seeking chemical weapons for itself, with an eye to attack the West. Drawing on astonishing original reporting, Warrick crafts a character-driven narrative that reveals how the United States embarked on a bold adventure to prevent one catastrophe but could not avoid a tragic chain of events that led to another.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Arms Control and Disarmament Agency |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Seymour M. Hersh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Biological warfare |
ISBN | : |