• PREFACE


• INTRODUCTION


• A. DETERRING AND DEFENDING AGAINST CATASTROPHIC ATTACKS


• Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr.


• DOCUMENT NO. 1: Critical Infrastructures: Background, Policy, and Implementation, CRS Report RL30153, John D. Moteff, June 7, 2010


• DOCUMENT NO. 2: Critical Infrastructure Protection: Key Private and Public Cyber Expectations Need to Be Consistently Addressed, GAO-10-628, David A. Powner, July 2010


• B. WARNING, DETECTION AND REACTION TO CATASTROPHIC ATTACKS


• Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr.


• DOCUMENT NO. 3: Biosurveillance: Efforts to Develop a National Biosurveillance Capability Need a National Strategy and a Designated Leader, GAO-10-645, William O. Jenkins, Jr., June 2010


• DOCUMENT NO. 4: Detection of Nuclear Weapons and Materials: Science, Technologies, Observations, CRS Report R40154, Jonathan Medalia, June 4, 2010


• DOCUMENT NO. 5: The Advanced Spectroscopic Portal Program: Background and Issues for Congress, CRS Report RL34750, Dana A. Shea et al., May 21, 2010


• DOCUMENT NO. 6: The Emergency Alert System (EAS) and All-Hazard Warnings, Issues for Congress, CRS Report RL32527, Linda K. Moore, August 26, 2010


• C. POLICY VOIDS AND INITIATIVES REGARDING CATASTROPHIC ATTACKS ON THE UNITED STATES


• Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr.


• DOCUMENT NO. 7: Federal Evacuation Policy: Issues for Congress, CRS Report RL34745, Bruce R. Lindsay, April 29, 2010


• DOCUMENT NO. 8: Homeland Defense: DOD Can Enhance Efforts to Identify Capabilities to Support Civil Authorities During Disasters, GAO-10-386, Davi M. D'Agostino, March 2010


• DOCUMENT NO. 9 Fiscal Year 2011 Department of Homeland Security Assistance to States and Localities, CRS Report R41105, Shawn Reese, April 26, 2010


• DOCUMENT NO. 10: Cyberspace Policy: Executive Branch Is Making Progress Implementing 2009 Policy Review Recommendations, but Sustained Leadership Is Needed, GAO-11-24, David A. Powner, October 2010


• SUBJECT INDEX

Douglas Lovelace is the Director of the Strategic Studies Institute at the US Army War College. Earlier in his military career, he worked on national security directives. He holds an MBA degree from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and a JD from Widener School of Law.
Kristen E. Boon is Director of International Programs at Seton Hall University School of Law. Her writings have appeared in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and the New York University Journal of International Law. A former clerk to the Supreme Court of Canada's Justice Ian Binnie, she holds an M.A. in Political Science from McGill University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a hardbound series that provides primary-source documents and expert commentary on the worldwide counter-terrorism effort. Volume 120, U.S. Preparedness for Catastrophic Attacks, discusses the critical topic of U.S. preparedness for catastrophic events. Doug Lovelace introduces documents that will inform researchers and practitioners of international law and national security about the ability of the United States to prevent and deter a catastrophic attack, as well as to mitigate and cope with the effects of such an attack.