The Federal Role in Terrorism Insurance
The Federal Role in Terrorism Insurance

Author: Lloyd Dixon

Publisher: Rand Corporation

Published: 2007-10-23

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780833044334

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What are the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act's effects on the market for terrorism insurance? What would be the effect of enhancing provisions for nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological (NBCR) attacks? The authors conclude that the program yields positive outcomes in a number of dimensions for conventional attacks and identify specific reforms that can improve results for NBCR attacks.

WMD Terrorism
WMD Terrorism

Author: Stephen M. Maurer

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 619

ISBN-13: 0262512858

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This collection of essays is a current and comprehensive review of what scientists and scholars know about WMD terrorism and America's options for confronting it. Complete with mathematical methods for analyzing terrorist threats and allocating defense resources, this multidisciplinary perspective addresses all forms and defenses of WMD, and the role of domestic U.S. politics in shaping defense investments and policies. Also identified are multiple instances in which the conventional wisdom is incomplete or misleading.