Academic Journal
A BRIEF ANALYSIS OF THREATS AND VULNERABILITIES IN THE MARITIME DOMAIN
| العنوان: | A BRIEF ANALYSIS OF THREATS AND VULNERABILITIES IN THE MARITIME DOMAIN |
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| المؤلفون: | Niyazi Onur Bakir |
| المساهمون: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| المصدر: | http://research.create.usc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article%3D1004%26context%3Dnonpublished_reports. |
| سنة النشر: | 2007 |
| المجموعة: | CiteSeerX |
| الوصف: | The attacks of September 11 have exposed the vulnerability of the American homeland against terrorism. Terrorists have already expressed their intentions to continue their aggression towards United States. Their goal is to incur maximum economic damage, inflict mass casualty, spread unprecedented fear among citizens and thus destabilize the nation to further their agenda. Many critical sites lay across US maritime borders, all of which could be potential targets to accomplish these goals. All these sites are simple elements of a complex body where the vulnerability of the whole system is a function of the vulnerability of the weakest element against an adaptive adversary. Ports, nuclear facilities, LNG facilities, urban areas, bridges, chemical plants and other critical infrastructure are all elements of this complex system. In this paper, we review the current status of security in the American maritime realm and discuss the programs and initiatives that seek to minimize terrorism risk. Our goal is to direct attention to various possible avenues that could be used to illegally introduce weapons, explosives and |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.660.995; http://research.create.usc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article%3D1004%26context%3Dnonpublished_reports |
| الاتاحة: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.660.995 http://research.create.usc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article%3D1004%26context%3Dnonpublished_reports |
| Rights: | Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.5A6978D1 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |