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"Responding to Catastrophic Events" brings together the leading scholars and practitioners of consequence management to instruct a new generation in how to respond to both natural disasters and manmade events. Focusing on the relationship of disaster management to national security and the Department of Defense, the contributors cover a range of potential scenarios and address the distinct responsibilities of first responders, the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense, and State, and the military. They also point to the importance of having a plan for the media and knowing the legal obstacles and issues that may arise in a disaster situation. Using recent case studies to provide lessons learned for future responses to disasters, "Responding to Catastrophic Events" is a comprehensive and vital reader for any scholar of public policy, emergency management, or strategic studies.

"Reviews the foundations of arms control, highlights the perspectives of the major nuclear powers, and assesses current initiatives and future possibilities for meeting challenges across a range of strategic domains, technologies, and weapons"--

Introduction : Assuring Control of the Nuclear Force / James J. Wirtz -- Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications and the Strategy of Deterrence / James J. Wirtz -- NC3 during the Bomber Age : 1945-57 / James Clay Moltz -- NC3 during the Missile Age : 1957-91 / James Clay Moltz -- US Nuclear Command, Control and Communications : The NC3 Weapons System / Jeffrey A. Larsen -- Space Architecture for NC3 : Systems and Technologies / Mathew R. Crook -- Cyber Operations and Nuclear Escalation : The Diversity of Danger / Jon R. Lindsay --Technology Threats to NC3 : Past Lessons and Current Challenge / Wade L. Huntley -- Technology Threats to NC3 : A Future Scenario / Wade L. Huntley -- NC3 Modernization : Progress and Remaining Changes / Michael S. Malley -- Conclusion : US NC3 at a Critical Juncture / Jeffrey A. Larsen.

Limited war and the advent of nuclear weapons / Jeffrey A. Larsen -- The origins of limited nuclear war theory / Andrew L. Ross -- The United States and discriminate nuclear options in the Cold War / Elbridge A. Colby -- Post-Cold War US nuclear strategy / Paul I. Bernstein -- The emerging nuclear landscape / Paul I. Bernstein -- Future scenarios of limited nuclear conflict / Thomas G. Mahnken -- Escalation to limited nuclear war in the 21st century / Kerry M. Kartchner and Michael S. Gerson -- The end of the nuclear taboo? / George H. Quester -- Deterrence, crisis management and nuclear war termination / Schuyler Foerster -- On US preparedness for limited nuclear war / Bruce W. Bennett -- Limited nuclear conflict and the American way of war / James M. Smith -- Limited nuclear war reconsidered / James J. Wirtz

Abrin -- Accidental nuclear war -- Agroterrorism (agricultural biological warfare) -- Airborne alert -- Al Qaeda -- Ammonium nitrate fuel oil -- Anthrax -- Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty -- Antinuclear movement -- Anti-satellite weapons -- Arms control -- Aum Shinrikyo -- Australia Group -- Baruch Plan -- Bikini Island -- Binary chemical munitions -- Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention -- Bioregulators -- Blood agents -- Botulism (botulinum toxin) -- Brinkmanship -- Broken arrow -- Brucellosis (Brucella bacterium) -- Chemical Weapons Convention -- Chernobyl -- China, People's Republic of -- Chlorine gas -- Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty -- Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (Nunn-Lugar Program) -- Crisis stability -- Criticality and critical mass -- De-alerting -- Declared facility -- Depleted Uranium (U-238) -- Deterrence -- Deterrence and Defense Posture Review -- Deuterium -- Enrichment -- Extended deterrence -- Fallout -- Fentanyl -- Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty -- France -- Fusion -- Gun-type devices -- Halabja Incident -- Half-life -- Hemorrhagic fever viruses -- Highly enriched uranium -- Hiroshima -- Hydrogen bomb -- Implosion devices -- India -- Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty -- International Atomic Energy Agency -- Iran -- Iraq -- Islamic state -- Isotopes -- Israel -- Joint comprehensive plan of action -- Kaffa, Siege of -- Kiloton -- Libya -- Limited Test Ban Treaty -- Lithium -- Low enriched uranium -- Manhattan Project -- Megaton -- Missile defense -- Missile Technology Control Regime -- Mustard (sulfur and nitrogen) -- Mutual assured destruction -- Nagasaki -- Napalm -- Nerve agents -- Neutron bomb (enhanced radiation weapon) -- New START Treaty -- North Korea -- Nuclear fuel cycle -- Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty -- Nuclear Posture Review -- Nuclear taboo -- Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty -- Nuclear-weapons-free zone -- Nuclear winter -- Pakistan -- Phosphorus -- Pit -- Platue -- Plutonium -- Prague Agenda -- Primary stage -- Psychoincapacitants -- Q fever -- Radiation -- Radiological dispersal device -- Reprocessing -- Ricin -- Russian chemical and biological weapons -- Russian nuclear forces and doctrine -- Smallpox -- South Africa -- Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B -- Stockpile Stewardship Program -- Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I and SALT II) -- Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) -- Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START II) -- Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty -- Syria -- Tactical nuclear weapons -- Triad -- Tritium -- Tularemia -- United Kingdom -- Uranium -- U.S. chemical and biological weapons programs -- U.S. nuclear forces and doctrine -- V-agents -- Wassenaar Arrangement -- Weapons of mass destruction -- Weapons-grade material -- Yellow rain -- Yield -- Primary documents.