Research Catalog

Title

Terrorism--reducing vulnerabilities and improving responses : U.S.-Russian Workshop proceedings / Committee on Counterterrorism Challenges for Russia and the United States, Office for Central Europe and Eurasia Development, Security, and Cooperation Policy and Global Affairs, in cooperation with the Russian Academy of Sciences ; National Research Council of the National Academies.

Author

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Counterterrorism Challenges for Russia and the United States

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2004.

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Additional Authors

Rossiĭskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ nauk

Description

xiii, 239 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Terrorism > Prevention > Congresses
• Terrorism > United States > Prevention > Congresses
• Terrorism > Russia (Federation) > Prevention > Congresses
• Cyberterrorism > United States > Prevention > Congresses
• Cyberterrorism > Russia (Federation) > Prevention > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Actes de congrès.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Urban terrorism. Analysis of the threats and consequences of terrorist acts in urban settings : outline of a protection system / Vladimir Z. Dvorkin -- 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 / George Bugliarello -- Lessons learned from the Nord-Ost terrorist attack in Moscow from the standpoint of Russian security and law enforcement agencies / Yevgeny A. Kolesnikov -- Preventing catastrophic consequences of bioterrorism in an urban setting / Vladimir G. Ivkov and Yevgeny A. Permyakov -- Toxic chemicals and explosive materials : terrorism-related issues for research community, chemical industry, and government / Alexander MacLachlan -- The role of the Russian ministry of internal affairs in combating terrorism in urban conditions / Sergey A. Starostin -- The three R's : lessons learned from September 11, 2001 / Robert Priento -- 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 / Aleksandr M. Yeliseev.
• Cyberterrorism. A perspective on cybersecurity research in the United States / Wm. A. Wulf and Anita K. Jones -- Analysis of the threat of cyberattacks to major transportation control systems in Russia / Mikhail B. Ignatyev -- Cyberattacks as an amplifier in terrorist strategy / Lewis M. Branscomb -- Cybercrime and cyberterrorism / Mikhail P. Sychev -- Protecting bank networks from acts of computer terrorism / Boris I. Skorodumov -- Computer security training for professional specialists and other personnel associated with preventing and responding to computer attacks / Anatoly A. Malyuk [and others] -- Information assurance education in the United States / Anita K. Jones -- Technical protection of electronic documents in computer systems / Valery A. Konyavsky -- Certain aspects regarding the development of conditions favorable to cyberterrorism and the main areas of cooperation in the struggle against it / Igor A. Sokolov and Vladimir I. Budzkov.
• Papers presented to the NRC and RAS Committees. Problems of combating terrorism and possible areas for Russian-American scientific cooperation to resollve them / Valentin A. Sobolev -- Making the nation safer : the role of science and technology in countering terrorism-- a report of the U.S. National Academies / Lewis M. Branscomb -- International aspects of creating a state system for countering illegal circulation of radioactive materials in the Russian Federation / Vladimir M. Kutsenko -- Medical aspects of combating acts of bioterrorism/ Gennady G. Onischenko Roots of terrorism / Robert McC. Adams -- The Department of Homeland Security : background and challenges / Raphael Perl -- Appendixes. Agendas for the Workshops on Urban and Cyberterrorism and the Meeting of the RAS and NRC Committees, March 2003 -- 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 -- Comprehensive training of specialists to counter information security threats / Nikolai V. Medvedev -- Excerpts from "Bioterrorism : a national and global threat / Gennady G. Onishchenko -- Biological terrorism / Russ Zajtchuk and David Franz -- Top-priority problems for scientific research on the information security of the Russian Federation Proposal for a Chem-Bio Attack Center (CBARC) for Chicago, Illinois, U.S. 2003 / Russ Zajtchuk and Joe Petrovic.

ISBN

• 0309089719 (Book)
• 030952590X (PDF)

LCCN

^^2004103935

OCLC

1089883947

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library