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HSR Monitor

The Monitor is the Institute's homeland security and resilience publication which is produced ten times a year. Encompassing a range of issues at strategic, operational and tactical levels relating to man-made, man-assisted and natural emergencies and disasters.
Issue: Oct 2003, Vol. 2, No. 7
Radiological weapons: how real is the threat? The spate of looting at more than six nuclear sites in Iraq during the recent, chaotic post-war period threatened to produce the worst nuclear security crisis since the fall of the Soviet Union. It also highlighted the danger of radioactive materials falling into the hands of terrorists seeking to make radiological/radiation dispersal devices (RDDs - 'dirty bombs'). The potential is great for looted materials to be sold on to terrorist groups seeking to make RDDs, writes Andy Oppenheimer.
Andy Oppenheimer
Target Bush? Al-Qaeda will seek to assassinate prominent Western political figures, Clive Williams writes.
Clive Williams
Iraq: the homeland security front line Recent terrorist attacks in Iraq have only increased the stakes for the US-led international coalition, Garth Whitty writes.
Garth Whitty
The threat from MANPADS The attempt by Al-Qaeda terrorists to bring down an Israeli passenger jet in November 2002 highlights the dangers posed by man-portable air defence system (MANPADS) This article studies the risks posed by MANPADS in terrorist hands
Martin Landauer
EMERCOM: a view from afar, a view from within and a view to the future Laura Hooper examines the origins and role of Russia's Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies and the Elimination of the Consequences of Natural Disasters (EMERCOM).
Laura Hooper
 
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