Editors:
- Provides a comprehensive review of the challenges posed to first responders and emergency managers by terrorism
- Provides a unique approach to coordinating preparedness and response to terrorism attacks against cities and infrastructure across boundaries
- Provides a unique set of non-traditional tools and strategies for enhancing response to WMD, WMK, and WMDi-terrorist attacks
- Provides a unique approach to training and exercising to being prepared for terrorism response
- Provides insight into fourth generation warfare and its challenge to first responders
Part of the book series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics (NAPSB)
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Table of contents (6 papers)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
International terrorism remains a significant threat to the peace of the world. Weapons using various materials and delivery systems have been directed against cities and infrastructure, and other materials are postulated to be usable within the near future. Some of these materials are unusual or exotic, while some are modifications of materials used daily for other purposes: biological, chemical, radiological, nuclear and explosive. These materials pose a safety challenge for first responders, slowing the response and potentially killing scarce trained personnel. This book provides information about how leading agencies across the NATO membership are preparing to confront and respond to terrorists deploying Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), Weapons of Mass Killing (WMK) and Weapons of Mass Disruption (WMDi). Based on contributions by experts from NATO member states, Israel and the Russian Federation, this book offers information on fourth generation warfare as a new challenge to first responders. It also provides a variety of insights into methods for preparing for and responding to WMD-, WMK-, and WMDi-events, using new technologies and strategies. Furthermore, the book offers solution for restoring the community to functioning after such a major terror attack. Topics include preparing, planning, operations, equipment, training and unique applications of existing technologies for countering terrorist attacks against cities and their infrastructure.
Editors and Affiliations
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San José State University, San José, USA
Frances L. Edwards
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University of Salzburg, Austria
Friedrich Steinhäusler
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: NATO And Terrorism
Book Subtitle: On Scene: New Challenges for First Responders and Civil Protection
Editors: Frances L. Edwards, Friedrich Steinhäusler
Series Title: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6277-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6275-9Published: 02 August 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6276-6Published: 29 June 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6277-3Published: 17 August 2007
Series ISSN: 1874-6500
Series E-ISSN: 1874-6535
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 262
Topics: Emergency Services, Professional & Vocational Education, Social Policy, Political Science, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography