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Improving Terrorism Warnings - The Homeland Security System

Overview This testimony addresses the important issue of ways to improve terrorism alerts. It focuses primarily on relevant research dedicated to, and the resulting related recommendations of, the Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction. The testimony concludes that DHS is showing flexibility and innovation in the way they are handling alerts. States, localities, and the private sector are, starting to understand the ambiguity of threats from terrorists and learning to adapt in a variety of ways.

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Publisher	RAND	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	March 2004	Downloads	2
Format	White Papers
Topics	Physical Infrastructure Protection, Data Sharing and Integration

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