Science and technology to counter terrorism
Subtitle: proceedings of an Indo-U.S. workshop
By: Roddam Narasimha ... [et al.], editors ; Committee on International Security and Arms Control, National Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with International Strategic and Security Studies Programme of the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India.
Contributors: Narasimha, Roddam.; National Academy of Sciences (U.S.). Committee on International Security and Arms Control.; National Institute of Advanced Studies (Bangalore, India). International Strategic and Security Studies Programme.; United States. Office of Naval Research.
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780309104999
Subjects: Terrorism -- Prevention -- Technological innovations -- Congresses.; Terrorism -- Prevention -- International cooperation -- Congresses.; Terrorism -- United States -- Prevention -- Congresses; Terrorism -- India -- Prevention -- Congresses.; Science and state -- Congresses.; Technology and state -- Congresses.; United States -- Foreign relations -- India.; India -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Genres: Congresses.; Congresses
Notes: "These proceedings present the papers and summarize the discussions of a workshop held in Goa, India, in January 2004, organized under the aegis of the Indian National Institute of Advanced Science (NIAS) and the U.S. Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC)"--Pref., p. vii.

"This report was supported by Task Order No. N00014-05-G-0288, DO#9 between the National Academy of Sciences and the Office of Naval Research"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: Science, technology, and countering terrorism : the search for a sustainable strategy / Lewis M. Branscomb; Terrorist threats in India / Afsir Karim; Discussion of terrorist threats in the United States and India and relevant science and technology / B. Raman and Harry Barnes; Information technology and communications security in India / N. Balakrishnan; Cyberterrorism and security measures / S. E. Goodman; Discussion of information technology and communications security / Raja Menon and Kumar Patel; Threats to civil nuclear-energy facilities / John P. Holdren; Threats to nuclear facilities : framing the problem / P. Rama Rao; Discussion of protecting nuclear-energy facilities / G.R. Srinivasan and Rose Gottemoeller; Local realities of terrorist threats / Julio Ribeiro; Securing against infrastructure terrorism / Lawrence T. Papay; Discussion of terrorist threats to infrastructure and relevant science and technology responses / M.K. Narayanan and Richard L. Garwin; India and agricultural bioterrorism / Kalyan Bannerjee; Twentieth-century legacy : the biological threats to twenty-first century science and society / Christopher Davis; Discussion of biology and agriculture terrorist threats / S. Gopal and Jonathan Pollack; Why should India and the United States cooperate? / K. Santhanam; Can science and technology help to counter terrorism? / Richard L. Garwin; Discussion of Indo-U.S. cooperation / T.G.K. Murthy and John P. Holdern; [Workshop agenda]; [List of workshop participants].