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Hitting America's Soft Underbelly

Author

Chalk, Peter

Year

2004

Publisher

RAND Corporation

Type

BOOK

Category

Medical

Language

English

Pages

67

ISBN

978-0-83303-594-3

Link

Last Update

09-Sep-2024

Keywords

MEDICAL / Health Policy;POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International)

Description

Over the past decade, the United States has endeavored to increase its ability to detect, prevent, and respond to terrorist threats and incidents. The agriculture sector and the food industry in general, however, have received comparatively little attention with respect to protection against terrorist incidents. This study aims to expand the current debate on domestic homeland security by assessing the vulnerabilities of the agricultural sector and the food chain to a deliberate act of biological terrorism and exploring the likely outcomes of a successful attack.

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