عنوان

State of Recovery

(Number (ISBN

9781441123640 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Number

40941

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

eng

Title Proper

State of Recovery

Other Title Information

:The Quest to Restore American Security After 911

First Statement of Responsibility

/ Barry Scott Zellen

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 321 pages ; 24 cm

Text of Note

Language: انگلیسی

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Print

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-307) and index.

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Foreword: innovation leads the way: from "long war" to longer peace / by Ambassador David T. Killion -- Moore's law and the evolution of security technology -- Information security in a world of cyber insecurity -- Document fraud: from criminal to terrorist enterprise -- Business continuity in dangerous times -- Border security and the war on terror -- Counterterrorism mentors: allied insights and lessons -- Enhanced border surveillance for the post 9/11 world -- Less lethal border security solutions: midway between "shout" and "shoot" -- Securing the maritime front: protecting America's seaports -- Securing the southern front -- Securing the northern front -- Air rage: aviation insecurity after 9/11 -- Truck bombing shifts into high gear -- Underground tremors: securing the Metro -- Courtroom violence and the war against the U.S. government -- Black Sunday redux -- Special delivery: letter-bombs continue to deliver a lethal message -- Bracing for bioterror -- Nuclear terrorism after 9/11: rethinking the unthinkable -- Nuclear weapons and the war on terror: halting the spread -- False alarm: Saddam, WMD, and the GWOT's first side show -- Power vacuum: Saddam's fall and the rise of Iran -- Nuclear ambitions: emergent ballistic missile threats -- Securing the "high frontier: missile defense, from hype to hope -- The axis of evil revisited: reflection and reassessment.

Entry Element

National security--United States

Entry Element

National security--Technological innovations--United States

Entry Element

Terrorism--United States--Psychological aspects

Number

Zellen, Barry Scott, 1963

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