High-Impact Terrorism

Committee on Confronting Terrorism in Russia, Office for Central Europe and Eurasia Development, Security, and Cooperation, National Research Council in Cooperation with the Russian Academy of Sciences

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Opening Remarks; 3 The Legal Basis for Counterterrorism Activities in the United States; 4 Russian Legislation and the Struggle Against Terrorism; 5 Russian Legislation and the Fight Against Terrorism; 6 Organized Crime and Terrorism; 7 International and Domestic Terrorism; 8 The Role of Internal Affairs Agencies in Efforts to Fight Terrorism Under High-Technology Conditions; 9 From the Experience of the Intelligence Services of the Russian Empire in Combating Terrorists; 10 On Historical Experience in Combating Terrorism; 11 Electromagnetic Terrorism; 12 Molecular Epidemiology as a New Approach in Detecting Terrorist Use of Infectious Agents; 13 Bioterrorism: Threat and Response; 14 Bioterrorism: A View from the Side; 15 Chemical Terrorism: Assessing Threats and Responses; 16 Radiological Terrorism; 17 Nuclear Terrorism; 18 Could Terrorists Produce Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons?; 19 Problems Preventing Acts of Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism; 20 Selected Technologies and Procedures Intended to Restrict Unauthorized Access to Explosives; 21 Terrorism: Explosives Threat; 22 Computer Terrorism and Internet Security Issues; 23 Preventing and Responding to Cybercrime and Terrorism: Some International Dimensions; 24 Problems of Biological Security in Agriculture; 25 Agricultural Bioterrorism; 26 Terrorism in a High-Tech Society: Legal Aspects and Contemporary Methods of Preventing and Countering Terrorist Activity; 27 Cooperation Among Ministries of Internal Affairs of CIS Member States in the Fight Against Terrorism and Other Manifestations of Extremism; 28 International Centers as a Basis for Controlling Infectious Disease and Countering Bioterrorism; 29 Terrorism Future: Tactics, Strategy, and Stealth; 30 New Opportunities for Bilateral Cooperation; 31 Concluding Statement; 32 Appendix A: Goals of Russian Federal Program on Problems of Natural and Technological Security; 33 Appendix B: Agenda for Workshop on Terrorism in a High-Tech Society and Modern Methods for Prevention and Response, June 4-8, 2001, Moscow, Russia