Biological Threats of Terrorism
Chemical-Biological Terrorism and Its Impact on Children
... and biological agents are now accessible in different formats, such as apps or Web sites optimized for mobile devices, and have been developed to allow for just-in-time use in a ...
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CBRN Threats and the Economic Analysis of Terrorism
... with biological incidents carry the largest monetary ...a biological disaster with CHF 2,010 million/year is 10 to 20 times greater than the expected amount of loss for both chemical and radiological ...
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Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear Terrorism/Warfare: A Bibliography
... Abstract: The millennium began with the United States more concerned than ever about the threat of terrorism in "Hometown USA". The Reserve Component (RC) has played a major role in the defense of this ...
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The Global Terrorism Threats to the State Security
... International Terrorism: The elements of all terrorisms' actions are the same, in ...the terrorism spreads worldwide ...of terrorism did not ...
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National Security Program. Homeland Security Project. Jihadist Terrorism and Other Unconventional Threats
... Next, this paper will consider the diminishing threat from the al-Qaeda core, the diffusion around the Muslim world of al-Qaeda-like groups, and the status of the “homegrown” threat in the United States. We will also ...
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Chemical-Biological Terrorism and Its Impact on Children: A Subject Review
... cause of their relatively larger body surface area, lose heat quickly when showered. Consequently, skin de- contamination with water may result in hypothermia unless heating lamps and other warming equipment are used. ...
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Public Opinion on Global Issues. Chapter 12a: U.S. Opinion on Transnational Threats: Terrorism
... In general, a large majority of Americans favor having the United Nations play a greater role in the fight against terrorism. Large majorities of U.S. respondents supported the UN Security Council having the right ...
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Rule of Force or Rule of Law: Legal Responses to Nuclear Threats from Terrorism, Proliferation, and War
... The Iraqi war taught the lesson that “nuclear suspicion,” “suspected development of WMD” and suspected “sponsorship of terrorism” touted by the U.S. were all aimed to find a pretext for war and one would fall ...
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Preventing the Unthinkable: An Overview of Threats, Risks, and US Policy Response to Nuclear Terrorism
... Additionally, theft by an external actor is only one security threat faced by nuclear stockpiles today. Ferguson and Potter outline several additional ways in which terrorists might gain access to nuclear material ...
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The processing of images of biological threats in visual short-term memory
... It would also be remiss not to mention the topic of face processing, given that facial expressions can convey a biological threat. The data from visual search studies are equivocal (see [27], Chapt. 16), as there ...
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The emerging threat of domestic terrorism: a systematic review of evolving needs, threats, and opportunities
... domestic terrorism threat over the past few years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has instituted improvements in an effort to make it the lead agency for countering the ever-changing domestic terrorism ...
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Terrorism threats and temporary exclusion orders : counter-terror rhetoric or reality?
... of Terrorism Act 2005 for imposing control orders and is now, with modification, used in the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011 ...
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Plant-Pathogenic Bacteria as Biological Weapons Real Threats?
... First author: Landcare Research, Private Bag 92170, Auckland, New Zealand; second and twenty-first authors: Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706; third author: Forestry and Agricultural ...
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What Is Terrorism? TERRORISM: ORIGIN OF THE WORD
... Antiquity to Al Qaeda, the Assassins’ assassination of Nizam al-Mulk, the Persian grand vizier of the dominant Turkish Seljuq sultans, was one of the chief terrorist attacks in human history. The word assassin allegedly ...
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Biological study on the impact of commonly used commercial fats and oil and threats of atherosclerosis
... 99 Fat that taken from diet is required for the absorption of fat soluble vitamins, hormones and major building block of cell membrane. Fat is very important for our survival but its consumption should limited otherwise ...
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The Wilderness Threats
... The threats matrix also provides an overview of wil- derness concerns that can help establish an agenda for wilderness management ...the threats matrix has been virtually ...other threats to ...
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NATIONAL CONSORTIUM FOR THE STUDY OF TERRORISM AND RESPONSES TO TERRORISM
... Global Terrorism Database (GTD) contains information on over 87,000 terrorist attacks from 1970 to 2008 and is the most comprehensive unclassified database on terrorist events in the ...
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Space-time modelling of terrorism and counter-terrorism
... fact have been resulting from a societal transformation whereby the patterns of daily life were being fundamentally altered triggering new opportunities for crimes to be committed. Cohen and Felson hypothesised that ...
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Threats and challenges
... The debate, chaired by Governor Dirk Kempthorne, president and CEO of the American Council of Life Insurers, will feature Gabriel Bernardino (chairman of the European Insurance and O[r] ...
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TERRORISM FINANCING Roots and trends of Saudi terrorism financing
... of terrorism, the United States announced the freezing of assets of several charitable in the United States and of two Palestinian financial companies believed to be support structures for the Hamas terrorist ...
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