Actions for Homeland security
Homeland security / edited by Norris Smith and Lynn M. Messina
- Published
- Bronx, NY : H.W. Wilson Co., 2004.
- Physical Description
- viii, 197 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Smith, Norris and Messina, Lynn
- Series
- Contents
- How safe are you? -- Amid safeguards, threat remains / Muriel Dobbin -- Homeland insecurity / Merrell Noden -- Detecting the threat : technology and the war on terror / Shane Harris -- The general nobody knows / Michael Hirsh -- "First responders" find their jobs even tougher / Ed Timms -- Their 9/11 response : be prepared / Richard T. Cooper -- Are state and local "first responders" getting the federal funding they say they need? / David Clarke -- Can we talk? / Ellen Perlman -- Pounds of cure / Kim A. O'Connell., Could it happen again? / Michael Duffy -- Mission impossible? / Jean Kumagai -- Digging through data for omens / Dana Hawkins -- Can we be safe and free? / Gene Stephens -- From A Guide to the Patriot Act / Dahlia Lithwick , Julia Turner -- The big bad border / Nina Shapiro -- Migrant smugglers traffic in terror, federal officials say / Bruce Finley -- Anti-terrorism plans stall / Brad Heath -- Report on Patriot Act alleges rights violations -- Boxed out / Madhusree Mukerjee -- Bumps in the sky / Daren Fonda ... [et al.]., and Seeking safe harbors / Pamela Sherrid -- U.S. port security : is X-ray enough? / Abraham McLaughlin -- Defending our shores and more / Marilyn Rauber -- How willing is private industry to identify its vulnerabilities and protect critical infrastructure? / Chris Logan -- Locking down on system security / Beth Wade -- Nuclear terrorism : assessing the risk / Richard Hantula -- Are we safer? : public health / Amanda Spake.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0824210336 (alk. paper)
- Note
- Description based on surrogate.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-190) and index.
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