书目名称 | NATO AND TERRORISM Catastrophic Terrorism and First Responders: Threats and Mitigation |
编辑 | Friedrich Steinhäusler,Frances Edwards |
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概述 | 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 communi |
丛书名称 | Nato Security through Science Series B: |
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描述 | .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, nu |
出版日期 | Conference proceedings 2005 |
关键词 | First Responder; Nation; Palestine Liberation Organization; assessment; terrorism |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3585-3 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-4020-3584-5 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-3585-2Series ISSN 1871-465X Series E-ISSN 1871-4676 |
issn_series | 1871-465X |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005 |