Terrorism: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Improving Responses

Committee on Counterterrorism Challenges for Russia and the United States, Office for Central Europe and Eurasia Development, Security, and Cooperation, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 URBAN TERRORISM Analysis of the Threats and Consequences of Terrorist Acts in Urban Settings: Outline of a Protection System; 3 Urban Security and September 11, 2001, in New York City: Projection of Threats onto a City as a Target and Measures to Avert Them or Minimize Their Impact; 4 Lessons Learned from the Nord-Ost Terrorist Attack in Moscow from the Standpoint of Russian Security and Law Enforcement Agencies; 5 Preventing Catastrophic Consequences of Bioterrorism in an Urban Setting; 6 Toxic Chemicals and Explosive Materials: Terrorism-Related Issues for the Research Community, Chemical Industry, and Government; 7 The Role of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Combating Terrorism in Urban Conditions; 8 The Three R's: Lessons Learned from September 11, 2001; 9 The Role of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations and Executive Branch Agencies of the City of Moscow in Dealing with Emergency Situations Arising from Acts of Terrorism; 10 CYBERTERRORISM A Perspective on Cybersecurity Research in the United States; 11 Analysis of the Threat of Cyberattacks to Major Transportation Control Systems in Russia; 12 Cyberattacks as an Amplifier in Terrorist Strategy; 13 Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism; 14 Protecting Bank Networks from Acts of Computer Terrorism; 15 Computer Security Training for Professional Specialists and Other Personnel Associated with Preventing and Responding to Computer Attacks; 16 Information Assurance Education in the United States; 17 Technical Protection of Electronic Documents in Computer Systems; 18 Certain Aspects Regarding the Development of Conditions Favorable to Cyberterrorism and the Main Areas of Cooperation in the Struggle Against It; 19 PAPERS PRESENTED TO THE NRC AND RAS COMMITTEES Problems of Combating Terrorism and Possible Areas for Russian-American Scientific Cooperation to Resolve Them; 20 Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism-A Report of the U.S. National Academies; 21 International Aspects of Creating a State System for Countering Illegal Circulation of Radioactive Materials in the Russian Federation; 22 Medical Aspects of Combating Acts of Bioterrorism; 23 Roots of Terrorism; 24 The Department of Homeland Security: Background and Challenges; 25 A Agendas for the Workshops on Urban and Cyberterrorism and the Meeting of the RAS and NRC Committees, March 2003; 26 B Annex 2 to the Agreement of Cooperation in Science, Engineering, and Medicine Between the Russian Academy of Sciences and the U.S. National Academies: Russian-American Cooperation in Counterterrorism; 27 C Comprehensive Training of Specialists to Counter Information Security Threats; 28 D Excerpts from "Bioterrorism: A National and Global Threat"; 29 E Biological Terrorism; 30 F Top-Priority Problems for Scientific Research on the Information Security of the Russian Federation; 31 G Proposal for a Chem-Bio Attack Response Center (CBARC) for Chicago, Illinois, U.S., 2003