High-tech Terrorism: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Technology and the Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session ... May 19 and September 15, 1988, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 - 145 pages |
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... agencies in dealing with the international and domestic terrorism menace . Later , we will be talking with Dr. Robert Kupperman , a noted terrorism expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies , and Mr. James Woolsey ...
... agencies in dealing with the international and domestic terrorism menace . Later , we will be talking with Dr. Robert Kupperman , a noted terrorism expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies , and Mr. James Woolsey ...
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... agencies of the United States have con- strained domestic terrorism , the home - grown violence perpetrated by hate groups . For this relative immunity , we should , and I think we can be thankful , but we cannot be complacent and ...
... agencies of the United States have con- strained domestic terrorism , the home - grown violence perpetrated by hate groups . For this relative immunity , we should , and I think we can be thankful , but we cannot be complacent and ...
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... agencies have been able to pre- vent over the last 5 years 54 specific terrorist incidents that would have amounted to hundreds of casualties . If those incidents had oc- curred , then the United States would be known as a focal point ...
... agencies have been able to pre- vent over the last 5 years 54 specific terrorist incidents that would have amounted to hundreds of casualties . If those incidents had oc- curred , then the United States would be known as a focal point ...
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... agencies such as FEMA and others that would come in to deal with the consequences . We are working in all of those areas . Senator LEAHY . Well , let me follow on that just a little bit more because it is not just the terrible acts that ...
... agencies such as FEMA and others that would come in to deal with the consequences . We are working in all of those areas . Senator LEAHY . Well , let me follow on that just a little bit more because it is not just the terrible acts that ...
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... agencies , you would not have a very significant force . But we have 900,000 police officers out there , and they are in the rural areas , they are in the metropolitan areas , they are on the highways . If we can create a state of ...
... agencies , you would not have a very significant force . But we have 900,000 police officers out there , and they are in the rural areas , they are in the metropolitan areas , they are on the highways . If we can create a state of ...
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Page 75 - Chairman, this concludes my prepared testimony. I will be happy to answer any questions you or members of your subcommittee may have.
Page 101 - ... Director shall recommend to the President alternative methods of providing Federal planning, management, mitigation, and assistance. 2-103. The Director shall be responsible for the coordination of efforts to promote dam safety, for the coordination of natural and nuclear disaster warning systems, and for the coordination of preparedness and planning to reduce the consequences of major terrorist incidents.
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Page 19 - deficiencies in planning and preparedness" for emergencies at various facilities operated by the Department of Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Department of Defense.
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Page 96 - ... nuclear material, fissionable material, or nuclear weapons or devices in ERDA custody; participate in the conduct, direction or coordination of search and recovery operations for nuclear materials, weapons or devices; assist in the identification and deactivation of improvised nuclear devices; and render advice on radiation and damage probabilities in the event of the detonation of an improvised nuclear device.
Page 101 - But we do have responsibility in ascertaining that the executive branch can respond in an efficient and coordinated fashion to mitigate the damage, injuries, and disruptions that may result from a severe terrorist incident.
Page 85 - This may portend more effective actions against power systems in the future. 20-146 0-89-4 -9Energy-related terrorism in the United States would be a particularly significant threat in a time of national defense mobilization.