Overview
- State-of-the-art analysis of threat scenarios due to catastrophic terrorism, including weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
- Critical review of the performance of the international first responder community during past major terror attacks
- Assessment of the current capabilities and needs of the first responders in selected countries
- Practical advice on how to protect the first responders in case of a catastrophic terror attack and how to enable them to continue their operations
Part of the book series: Nato Security through Science Series B: (NASTB)
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About this book
September 11, 2001 in the U.S., March 11, 2004 in Madrid – just two examples of a series of major terror attacks against NATO member states on both sides of the Atlantic. We now know that international terrorism is capable of transboundary planning and military style execution of attacks, resulting in several thousand dead and wounded. In the future even larger terror attacks can no longer be ruled out, including the deployment of weapons of mass destruction. This new form of catastrophic terrorism poses a major challenge to the first responder community in their search and rescue operations, since these new threats represent an unprecedented risk for their health, possibly even questioning their own survival. Since the first responders are the first line of defence of every community in the aftermath of such a terror attack, it is essential for every community to ensure that its first responders are able to provide their valuable services even in such extreme situations.
In this important new book a group of experts represents the current knowledge on the various terrorism threats to first responders resulting from the novel use of conventional weapons, as well radiological, nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Also, the current situation in selected countries of different sizes and practical experience with terrorism countermeasures (Austria, Israel, Slovenia, Russia, U.S.) is reviewed, focusing on the national operational logistics and the individual needs for improving the present situation. Finally, this book offers innovative solutions to strengthen the level of protection of the first responders, culminating in fifty-one practically applicable recommendations.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: NATO AND TERRORISM Catastrophic Terrorism and First Responders: Threats and Mitigation
Editors: Friedrich Steinhäusler, Frances Edwards
Series Title: Nato Security through Science Series B:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3585-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3583-8Published: 13 September 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3584-5Published: 13 September 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3585-2Published: 22 May 2007
Series ISSN: 1871-465X
Series E-ISSN: 1871-4676
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 204
Topics: Social Sciences, general, Physics, general, Chemistry/Food Science, general, Medicine/Public Health, general, Life Sciences, general