Responding to Catastrophic Events

Part I. Background

1. Dealing with Disaster
Jeffrey A. Larsen

2. What Just Happened? Situational Awareness, Threat Characterization, and Effective Consequence Management
James J. Wirtz

3. The Tyranny of Time: The Challenge of First Response
Jerry Barnhill

Part II. Federal Response

4. Homeland Security and Homeland Defense
Richard A. Love

5. Federal Response: Assisting without Overwhelming
Greg Moser, Garry Briese

6. Department of Defense Response: The Evolving Mission
Pat Allen Pentland

Part III. Legal Issues, Communications, and Foreign Consequence Management

7. Legal Issues Associated with a Catastrophic Domestic Incident
G. Roderick Gillette

8. Communications: The Critical Function
George Haddow

9. Foreign Consequence Management
Brian Lewis

Part IV. Case Studies

10. Terror on the Tokyo Subway: Aum Shinrikyo and WMD Consequence Management
Erin R. Mahan

11. Hurricane Katrina and Consequence Management
Jessica Iannotti

12. Fractured Response: Lessons for WMD Consequence Management from Hurricane Katrina and the 1995 Tokyo Subway Attack
Shane Smith

Part V. Conclusion

13. Consequence Management and National Security
Kerry M. Kartchner

Nyckelord: Political Science and International Relations, European Politics, International Relations, Military and Defence Studies, Conflict Studies, US Politics