Terrorism : Reducing Vulnerabilities and Improving Responses: U. S. -Russian Workshop Proceedings Book

	Analysis of the threats and consequences of terrorist acts in urban settings : outline of a protection system	3
	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	15
	Lessons learned from the Nord-Ost terrorist attack in Moscow from the standpoint of Russian security and law enforcement agencies	26
	Preventing catastrophic consequences of bioterrorism in an urban setting	35
	Toxic chemicals and explosive materials : terrorism-related issues for the research community, chemical industry, and government	39
	The role of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in combating terrorism in urban conditions	47
	The three R's : lessons learned from September 11, 2001	58
	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	69
	A perspective on cybersecurity research in the United States	77
	Analysis of the threat of cyberattacks to major transportation control systems in Russia	85
	Cyberattacks as an amplifier in terrorist strategy	93
	Cybercrime and cyberterrorism	97
	Protecting bank networks from acts of computer terrorism	104
	Computer security training for professional specialists and other personnel associated with preventing and responding to computer attacks	112
	Information assurance education in the United States	121
	Technical protection of electronic documents in computer systems	125
	Certain aspects regarding the development of conditions favorable to cyberterrorism and the main areas of cooperation in the struggle against it	136
	Problems of combating terrorism and possible areas for Russian-American scientific cooperation to resolve them	145
	Making the nation safer : the role of science and technology in countering terrorism - a report of the U.S. national academies	149
	International aspects of creating a state system for countering illegal circulation of radioactive materials in the Russian federation	160
	Medical aspects of combating acts of bioterrorism	164
	Roots of terrorism	168
	The Department of Homeland Security : background and challenges	176
App. A	Agendas for the workshops on urban and cyberterrorism and the meeting of the RAS and NRC committees, March 2003	187
App. B	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	194
App. C	Comprehensive training of specialists to counter information security threats	196
App. D	Excerpts from "Bioterrorism : a national and global threat"	206
App. E	Biological terrorism	214
App. F	Top-priority problems for scientific research on the information security of the Russian federation	222
App. G	Proposal for a chem-bio attack response center (CBARC) for Chicago, Illinois, U.S., 2003	229