Countering Urban Terrorism in Russia and the United States

Glenn E. Schweitzer and A. Chelsea Sharber, Editors, Committee on Counterterrorism, Challenges for Russia and the United States, Office for Central Europe and Eurasia, National Research Council, in cooperation with the Russian Academy of Sciences

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Report of U.S.-Russian Working Group on Energy Vulnerabilities; 3 Report of U.S.-Russian Working Group on Transportation Vulnerabilities; 4 Report of U.S.-Russian Working Group on Cyberterrorism Issues; 5 Cybersecurity and Urban Terrorism-Vulnerability of the Emergency Responders; 6 News and Terrorism: Communicating in a Crisis; 7 Problems of Urban Terrorism in Russia; 8 Terrorist Acts in Moscow: Experience and Lessons in Eliminating Their Consequences; 9 Critical Integration and Coordination Issues in Urban Security; 10 Special Characteristics of Firefighting in Urban Areas; 11 A Decision Informatics Approach to Urban Emergency Management; 12 Efforts of Russian Ministries in Implementing Measures to Prevent Acts of Terrorism; 13 Safety and Security in Megacities; 14 The Role of Science and Technology in Homeland Security and Countering Terrorism: Overview of Key Activities at the National Academies; 15 Does the Emergence of Insurgencies Provide Lessons for Terrorism?; 16 Unauthorized Use of Radiation Sources: Measures to Prevent Attacks and Mitigate Consequences; 17 Other Dimensions of Radiological Terrorism; 18 Biological Terrorism: Regional Preparedness; 19 On the Events in Beslan; 20 Measuring Progress, or Lack Thereof, in Combating Terrorism; 21 On Efforts to Counter International Terrorism in the Russian Federation and Possible Areas of U.S.-Russian Cooperation in this Area; 22 Cybercrime and the Training of Specialists to Combat It in Russia; 23 Methodology for Assessing the Risks of Terrorism; 24 Appendix A Methodology for Assessing the Risks of Terrorism; 25 Appendix B Russian Academy of Sciences-U.S. National Academies Joint Committees on Countering Terrorism