Measuring and evaluating local preparedness for a chemical or biological terrorist attack / [book] Fricker, Ronald D.

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Fricker, Ronald D

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TextPublication details: [US] : Rand Issue Paper, 2002.Description: 8 p. ; 30 cmDDC classification:

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Review: People in the United States have been terrorized on U.S. soil with targeted violence, on various scales and with varying success for decades. Yet the recent September 2001 attacks and the earlier bombing of Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building vividly demonstrate something disturbing and new : Some contemporary terrorists, both home-grown and foreign, are not detered by - indeed may even be attempting to produce - human casualties on a massive scale. These events are part of a pattern of increasing lethality that started in the 1920's. Even more troubling is that, while conventional explosives may continue to be the predominant terrorist weapon, the magnitude of the September 11 attacks coupled with the spread of anthrax-laced letters have led some to conclude that chemical or biological weapons are now more likely than ever to be used.

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People in the United States have been terrorized on U.S. soil with targeted violence, on various scales and with varying success for decades. Yet the recent September 2001 attacks and the earlier bombing of Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building vividly demonstrate something disturbing and new : Some contemporary terrorists, both home-grown and foreign, are not detered by - indeed may even be attempting to produce - human casualties on a massive scale. These events are part of a pattern of increasing lethality that started in the 1920's. Even more troubling is that, while conventional explosives may continue to be the predominant terrorist weapon, the magnitude of the September 11 attacks coupled with the spread of anthrax-laced letters have led some to conclude that chemical or biological weapons are now more likely than ever to be used.

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