Terrorism & Weapons of Mass Destruction
Note: The following links were originally distributed in a handout for a class at the Defense Nuclear Weapons School. It was circulated within Virginia Tech around 2003. While placing them on this web site all links were tested.and broken links were corrected when possible. Over time new links will be added to update this page. We welcome suggestions and corrections.
American Red Cross, Washington, DC chapter Disaster Services (inc. WMD) http://www.tallytown.com/redcross/ds/ Bureau of Alchohol, Tabacco and Firearms http://www.atf.treas.gov Canadian Security Intelligence Service http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca Centers for Disease Control http://www.cdc.gov Emerging Infectious Diseases, CDC, National Center for Infectious Diseases http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/index.htm Central Intelligence Agency http://www.odci.gov/ Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/ Joint Chiefs of Staff http://www.jcs.mil/ DoD Office of Executive Secretary http://www.defenselink.mil/execsec/ Defense Threat Reduction Agency http://www.dtra.mil/ Defense Nuclear Weapons School (original link broken. New link to info provided) http://www.dtra.mil/Toolbox/Directorates/CS/Programs/Training/DNWS/index.cfm U.S. Military Medical Web Links http://www.usafp.org/op_med/weblinks/milmedlinks/milmedlinksframe2.html U.S. Air Force http://www.af.mil/ U.S. Air Force Fact Sheets (Equipment Descriptions) http://beqiraj.com/usa/factsheets/airforce/index.asp Air University Index to Military Periodicals http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/aulimp/ Barksdale AFB (2nd Bobm Wing 0 B52H) http://www.barksdale.af.mil/ F.E. Warren AFB (90th Space Wing 0 MMII & Peacekeeper) http://www.warren.af.mil/ Malmstrom AFB (34th Space Wing - MMII) http://www.malmstrom.af.mil/ Minot AFB 91st Space Wing - MMIII, 5th Bomb Wing - B52H) http://www.minot.af.mil/ Whiteman AFB (509th Bomb Wing - B2) http://www.whiteman.af.mil/ U.S. Navy http://www.navy.mil/ Naval Submarine Base Bangor (Submarine Group 9 - Trident) http://www.csg9.navy.mil/ Naval Submarine Base King's Bay (Submarine Group 10 - Trident II) http://www.subasekb.navy.mil/ Navy Fact File (Equipment Descriptions) http://beqiraj.com/usa/factsheets/navy/index.asp U.S. Strategic Commant http://www.stratcom.mil/ Defense Technical INformation Center (DTC) http://www.dtic.mil/ Director of Military Support (Original link broken. New link to info provided) http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/doms.htm Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) http://www.fbi.gov/ Federal Aviation Administration http://www.faa.gov/ Homeland Security State Contact List http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/interapp/editorial/editorial_0291.xml Immigration and Naturalization Service (Citizenship and Immigration Services) http://uscis.gov/graphics/index.htm Library of Congress Country Studies http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/ Medical Nuclear Biological Chemical (NBC) Defense Information Server http://www.nbc-med.org/others/Default.html National Domestic Preparedness Office http://www.chaosacrossamerica.com/OHS/Departments/NDPO.htm National Homeland Security Knowledgebase http://www.twotigersonline.com/resources.html Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) http://www.wws.princeton.edu/ota/ Office of Technology Assessment Publications http://www.wws.princeton.edu/ota/ns20/pubs_f.html U.S. Customs Service http://www.customs.treas.gov/ U.S. Department of Justice http://www.usdoj.gov/ U.S. Postal Inspection Service http://www.usps.com/postalinspectors/ U.S. Department of State http://www.state.gov/ U.S. Secret Service http://www.secretservice.gov/ U.S. Department of Transportation http://www.dot.gov/ U.S. Department of the Treasury http://www.ustreas.gov/ British Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Travel Advice Notices Material intended to advise and inform British citizens travelling abroad http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029390572 Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Travel Information Advisory Reports Travel information and advisories from the Canadian government http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/travel/menu-en.asp Canada's Counter-Terrorism Program Canadian Counter-Terrorism Policy and Opertional Readiness http://www.psepc-sppcc.gc.ca/serv/404-en.asp?url=404;http://www.psepc-sppcc.gc.ca:80/national_security/counter_terrorism_e.asp U.S. Department of State's Travel Warnings & Consular Information Sheets Official U.S. Department of State travel advisories for each country in the world. Also contains brief information on medical facilities, crime, infrastructure, legal, Embassy locations and other information useful for travelers. Key official information from USIA concerning counterterrorism. Very similar to the Department of States Counterterrorism site http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis_pa_tw_1168.html U.S. State Department's Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism Counterterrorism information site for the U.S. Department of State. Contains official statements, fact sheets and speeches. http://www.state.gov/s/ct/ U.S. State Department "Patterns of Global Terrorism" Reports The Hellenic Resources Institute offers the 1993, 1994 and 1995 "Patterns of Global Terrorism" Reports on their site. These reports list the terrorist incidents during the year, as well as background information on the perpetrators. http://www.hri.org/docs/USSD-Terror/ FEMA's "Terrorism" page Basic information on terrorism from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The Fact Sheet lists what to do before, during and after a terrorist attack http://www.fema.gov/hazard/terrorism/index.shtm Countering Terrorism and Protecting our Forces This page provides information about the Department of Defense's efforts to fight terrorism at home and abroad. http://www.defenselink.mil/other_info/terrorism.html CDT's Counter-Terrorism issues page The Center for Democracy and Technology's page contains information and analysis relating to counterterrorism legislation. http://www.cdt.org/policy/terrorism/ Electronic Privacy Information Center's Counter-Terrorism Proposals The Electronic Privacy Information Center is a resource for information on counterterrorism proposals and the restriction of free speech. http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/ Terrorism Research Center Terrorism, information warfare and security, critical infrastructure protection, homeland security, and other issues of low-intensity political violence and gray-are phenomena http://www.terrorism.org/ International Association of Counterterrorism and Security Professionals The IACSP site has information concerning their organization as well as feature's from their magazine, Counterterrorism & Security http://www.iacsp.com/ Electronic Frontier Foundation. Information regarding legislative counterterrorism efforts that use "'terrorism' and 'militias' as excuses" for censorship. http://www.eff.org/Censorship/Terrorism_militias/antiterrorism_chill.html Anti-Defamation League The leading organization against anti-Semitism and its site has information on terrorism, hate crimes, skinheads, militias, and extremists. http://www.adl.org/ Terrorist Group Profiles Provided by the Dudley Knox Library at the Naval Postgraduate School http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/tgp/tgpmain.htm Letter and package bomb indicators: Courtesy of ERRI and the U.S. Postal Inspector's Office http://www.emergency.com/pkgbomb.htm The FBI's letter/package bomb indicators courtesy of Intercom.net http://www.intercom.net/local/shore_journal/fbi10924.html Kim-spy site. A wide variety of links to paramilitary and terrorism information on Internet http://www.kimsoft.com/kim-spy2.htm Oklahoma City Tragedy. A site by CNN dedicated to the OKC bombing and current information on the on-going trial http://www.cnn.com/US/OKC/index.html Terror in Dhahran: Saudi Bomb Blast. CNN provides information on the blast, investigation, victims, and impact and analysis http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/1996/saudi.special/index.html Olympic Park Bombing. Provides information on the bombing, investigation, victims and reaction http://www.cnn.com/US/9607/27/olympic.bomb.main/index.html Disasters & Emergencies page (HHS) The purpose of the DP Program is to prepare the United States for the possibility of a terrorist attack involving nuclear, biological or chemical weapons. http://www.hhs.gov/emergency/index.shtml Center for Homeland Defense & Homeland Security Studies (Air War College) http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc-hmld.htm Countering the Changing Threat of International Terrorism http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/commission.html "Dark Winter" BioTerrorism Simulation Exercise (Center for Biosecurity). A fictional smallpox attack scenario http://www.hopkins-biodefense.org/darkwinter.htm ERRI Counterterrorism Archive http://www.emergency.com/cntrterr.htm Institute for Counter-Terrorism http://www.ict.org.il Counterterrorism and Incident Response (LLNL) http://www.llnl.gov/nai/Programs/Counterterrorism/ National Security Agency (NSA) http://www.nsa.gov National Security Institute Counter Terrorism http://nsi.org/terrorism.html National Technical Information Service http://www.ntis.gov Specwar.net: Counter-Terrorist Groups http://www.specwarnet.com/ct.htm Technical Support Working Group http://www.tswg.gov UN Action Against - Combating Terrorism http://www.un.org/terrorism US Department of State: Counterterrorism Office http://www.state.gov/s/ct CDC Bioterrorism Emergency Preparedness & Response http://www.bt.cdc.gov/ Advice for Safeguarding Buildings Against Chemical or Biological Attack Department of Energy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) http://securebuildings.lbl.gov Emergency Information Infrastructure Partnership Newsletter http://www.emforum.org/eiip/news.htm Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) http://www.fema.gov National Fire and Rescue Magazine http://www.nfrmag.com National Institute for Chemical Studies http://www.nicsinfo.org/ Guide for the Selection of Chemical Agent and Toxic Industrial Material Detection Equipment for Emergency First Responders National Institute of Justice Guide 100-00 http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/pubs-sum/184449.htm NIOSH - Emergency Response Resources http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/emres01.html National Response Center, Chemical/HAZMAT spills http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/nrchp.html National Terrorism Preparedness Institute (NTPI) http://terrorism.spjc.edu/ US Environmental Protection Agency, National Response System http://www.epa.gov/superfund/programs/er/nrs/nrsrrt.htm US Joint Forces Command /http://www.jfcom.mil/ US Response to CBW Terrorism and Domestic Preparedness http://cns.miis.edu/research/cbw/domestic.htm A vast number of resources on homeland security, terrorism, and weapons of mass destruction http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cps-terr.htm Arms Control Implementation and Compliance http://www.defenselink.mil/acq/acic/ Arms Sale Monitoring Project. Federation of American Scientists http://www.fas.org/asmp/ Bureau of Non-Proliferation http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/bureaunp.html Counterproliferation and Chemical/Biological Defense Programs http://www.acq.osd.mil/cp Cox Committee Report http://www.house.gov/coxreport/ Bureau of Interntional Security and Nonproliferation (ISN) http://www.state.gov/t/isn/http://www.state.gov/t/isn/ International Information Programs http://usinfo.state.gov LLNL Nonproliferation, Arms Control and International Security http://www.llnl.gov/nai/ Military Critical Technologies http://www.dtic.mil/mctl Nonproliferation Review. Center for nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/npr/index.htm Nuclear Control Institute http://www.nci.org/index.htm Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Assessing the Risk (August 1993) http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1993/9341_n.html Technologies Underlying Weapons of Mass Destruction (December 1993) http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1993/9344_n.html Treaties and Agreements http://www.defenselink.mil/acq/acic/treaties/index.htm United States Air Force Counterproliferation Center http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc-cps.htm The Chemical and Biological Information Analysis center Newsletter http://www.cbiac.apgea.army.mil/awareness/newsletter/intro.html "Dark Winter" BioTerrorism Simulation Exercise http://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/pages/events/dark_winter/dark_winter.html Terrorism and Political Violence (journal) http://www.gbhap.com/journals/titles/09546553.asphttp://www.gbhap.com/journals/titles/09546553.asp Guide for the Selection of Chemical Agent and Toxic Industrial Material Detection Equipment for Emergency First Responders National Institute of Justice 100-00 http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/pubs-sum/184449.htm US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense http://chemdef.apgea.army.mil/ http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/aulimp/ Closing the Circle on the Splitting of the Atom: The Environmental Legacy of Nuclear Weapons Production in the United States and What the Department of Energy is Doing About It, DOE/EM-0266 DOE Office of Environmental Management, 1966 http://legacystory.apps.em.doe.gov Department of Energy (DOE) http://www.energy.gov DOE Environmental Management http://www.em.doe.gov DOE Hanford Site http://www.hanford.gov DOE Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory http://www.inel.gov DOE Nevada Operations Office http://www.nv.doe.gov DOE Oak Ridge National Laboratory http://www.ornl.gov DOE Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) http://www.wipp.energy.gov/ DOE/NNSA Kansas City Plant http://www.kcp.com DOE/NNSA Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) http://www.llnl.gov DOE/NNSA Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) http://www.lanl.gov DOE/NNSA Nevada Test Site http://www.nv.doe.gov/nts/default.htm DOE/NNSA Pantex Plant http://www.pantex.com DOE/NNSA Sandia National Laboratory (SNL) http://www.sandia.gov DOE/NNSA Sandia National Laboratory-California http://www.ca.sandia.gov/casite/index.html DOE/NNSA Savannah River Site (SRS) http://www.srs.gov/general/srs-home.html DOE/NNSA Y-12 National Security Complex http://www.y12.doe.gov Effects of Nuclear War (May 1979) http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~ota/disk3/1979/7906_n.html Linking Legacies: Connecting the Cold War Nuclear Weapons Production Processes to Their Environmental Consequences DOE/EM-0319, DOE Office of Environmental Management, 1997 http://legacystory.apps.em.doe.gov National Atomic Museum http://www.atomicmuseum.com Nuclear Age Timeline: Traces the nuclear age from the discovery of x-ways and radioactivity, the explosion of the first atomic bomb, the cold war, to the cleanup of the nuclear weapons complex http:/www.em.doe.gov/timeline Office of Technology Assessment Publications http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~ota/ns20/pubs_f.html Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site (REAC/TS) Radiation Incidents, "Guidance for Radiation Accident Management-Prehospital Emergency Services" -http://www.orau.gov/reacts/manage.htm If you find broken links, please tell us about them.
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Edited by Sarah Bobrow-Williams with the assistance of the students and faculty of Goddard College
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