HMLS Technological Disasters - Readings and Links

TECNOLOGICAL DISASTERS: READINGS AND LINKS

ELLISON, D. Hank: 2016. Emergency Action for Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents. Second Edition. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group LLC. ISBN-13 9781482211801 (paperback).
HOFFMAN, David E.: 2010. The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy. New York, NY: Anchor Books/Random House, Inc. ISBN-13 9780307387844 (paperback).
JAFFIN, Robert: 2013. Hazardous Material (HAZMAT) Life Cycle Management: Corporate, Community, and Organizational Planning and Preparedness. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group., 2013. ISBN-13 9781439873878 (hardcover).

Web Sites

EPA. US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Updated daily.

FEMA. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Updated daily.

Homeland Security. US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Updated daily.

National Centers for Environmental Protection. National Centers for Environmental Protection (NCEP), National Weather Service (NWS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), US Department of Commerce. 28 August 2012.

Biological

CARROLL, Michael Christopher: 2005. Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory. New York, NY: Harper Paperbacks/HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN-13 9780060781842 (paperback).
STEVENS, Serita, and Anne BANNON: 2007. Book of Poisons: A Guide for Writers. Howdunit Series. Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books. ISBN-13 9781582974569 (paperback).

Web Sites

Center for Health Security. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). 2014.

National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) [Fort Detrick, MD]. Science and Technology Directorate, US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). No date.

Plum Island Animal Disease Center. Agricultural Research Service (ARS), US Department of Agriculture (DOA). 19 February 2015.

Note: The Web site URL now redirects viewers to the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (Beltsville, MD) site.

U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID). US Army Medical Department, US Army. No date. [The Borden Institute's Medical Aspects of Biological Warfare page (2007) has links to many PDF documents related to this theme.]

Virtual Biosecurity Center. Federation of American Scientists (FAS). No date.

Chemical

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: 2004. Clouds of injustice: Bhopal disaster 20 years on. London, UK: Amnesty International Publications. ISBN-10 0862103649 (online). [This document is available online at http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA20/015/2004/en/fa14a821-d584-11dd-bb24-1fb85fe8fa05/asa200152004en.pdf.]

Web Sites

Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS). US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). 9 February 2015.

Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management (CHEMM). Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH), US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). No date. [The Types and Categories of Hazardous Chemicals page contains links to pages that discuss this information in greater detail.]

Chemical Transportation Emergency Center (CHEMTREC). American Chemistry Council (ACC), Inc. 2015.

Critical Infrastructure: Chemical Security. US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). 4 February 2015.

US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID). US Army Medical Department, US Army. No date. [The Borden Institute's Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare page (2008) has links to many PDF documents related to this theme.]

Climate Change & Global Warming

This could have been listed in the "Natural Disasters" section instead of this section. The actual causess of climate change and global warming are complex. Industrial activity and pollution, however, play a major role in accelerating what may be cyclical "natural" (on a solar system scale) processes.

EGAN, Timothy: 2006. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. Reprint Edition. New York, NY: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Co. ISBN-13 9780618773473 (paperback).
FAGAN, Brian: 2008. The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press. ISBN-13 9781596916012 (paperback).; 2002. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850. New York, NY: Basic Books/Perseus Book Group. ISBN-13 9780465022724 (paperback).; 2005. The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization. New York, NY: Basic Books/Perseus Book Group. ISBN-13 9780465022823 (paperback).
ROMM, Joseph: 2018. Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know. Second Edition. What Everyone Needs to Know. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN-13 9780190866105 (paperback).

Web Sites

Climate Change. US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 13 February 2015.

Climate Glossary. Climate Prediction Center (CPC), Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, National Weather Service (NWS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), US Department of Commerce. 21 September 2004.

Climate Prediction Center. Climate Prediction Center (CPC), Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, National Weather Service (NWS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), US Department of Commerce. 16 December 2014.

Armed Conflicts & Wars

BEVAN, Robert: 2007. The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War. Second Expanded Edition. London, UK: Reaktion Books, Ltd. ISBN-13 9781780235974 (paperback).
BORCH, Fred L.: 2010. Geneva Conventions. New York, NY: Kaplan Publishing/Kaplan, Inc. ISBN-13 9781607145547 (paperback). [There is a substantial "Introduction" by Gary D. Solis.]
BRIZIO-SLAV, Flavia, Editor: 2004. Reconstructing Societies in the Aftermath of War: Memory, Identity, and Reconciliation. Boca Raton, FL: Bordighera Press. ISBN-13 9781884419652 (paperback).
O'MARA, Shane M.: 2016. Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN-13 9780674743908 (hardcover).

Web Sites

The Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols. International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). 23 October 2014.

Military Analysis Network. Federation of American Scientists (FAS). No date.

Explosives

ATF/DOJ

Arson & Explosives Publications.

This source contains links to PDF files that can be downloaded from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), US Department of Justice (DOJ):

Federal Explosives Law and Regulations (ATF Publication 5400.7).

ATF Safety and Security Information for Federal Explosives Licensees and Permittees (ATF Publication 5400.15).

Other publications

LASKA, Paul R.

2015. Bombs, IEDs, and Explosives: Identification, Investigation, and Disposal Techniques. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group LLC. ISBN-13 9781498714495 (hardcover).

THE LAW LIBRARY

2018. Abandoned Mine Land Program. US Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Regulation (OSM). Seattle, WA: CreateSpace/On-Demand Publishing, LLC (Amazon.com). ISBN-13 9781729743492 (paperback).

SMITH, Jim

2016. Brodie's Bombs and Bombings: A Handbook to Protection, Security, Detection and Investigation for Industry, Police and Fire Departments. Fourth Edition. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Ltd. ISBN-13 9780398090937 (paperback).

Web Sites

Ammonium Nitrate Security Program. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). 27 July 2012.

Bomb Arson Tracking System (BATS). US Bomb Data Center (USBDC), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), US Department of Justice (DOJ). No date.

Facts About Landmines. Care. 16 October 2003.

Landmines. Landmines. No date.

US Bomb Data Center (USBDC). Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), US Department of Justice (DOJ). No date.

Nuclear Weapons

COLLINS, Catherine, and Douglas FRANTZ

2011. Fallout: The True Story of the CIA's Secret War on Nuclear Trafficking. New York, NY: Free Press/Simon & Schuster, Inc. ISBN-13 9781439183069 (hardcover).

COMMISSION TO ASSESS THE THREAT TO THE UNITED STATES FROM ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE (EMP) ATTACK (EMP COMMISSION)

2004. Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack: Volume 1: Executive Report. EMP Commission. <http://www.empcommission.org/docs/empc_exec_rpt.pdf>.

GRAHAM, Bob, Jim TALENT, et.al.

2008. World at Risk: The Report of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism. Authorized Edition. New York, NY: Vintage Books/Random House, Inc. ISBN-13 9780307473264 (paperback).

More information about the Commission and this document are available online at http://www.preventwmd.org/report.

LANGEWIESCHE, William

2007. The Atomic Bazaar: Dispatches from the Underground World of Nuclear Traficking. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. ISBN-13 9780374531324 (paperback).

MAHAFFEY, James

2018. Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder: A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science. New York, NY: Pegasus Books Ltd. ISBN-13 9781681777856 (paperback).

SCHLOSSER, Eric

2014. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety. New York, NT: Penguin Books/Penguin Group (USA) LLC. ISBN-13 9780143125785 (paperback).

SOKOLSKI, Henry D.

2015. Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future. Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, US Army, Defense Department. ISBN-13 9781584877196. [A paper copy is available from the US Government Publishing Office (GPO), GPO Stock Number 008-000-01175-3. This document can also be read or downloaded as a PDF or in other formats at http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1310.]

SOKOLSKI, Henry D., Editor

2015. Nuclear Weapons Materials Gone Missing: What Does History Teach? Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, US Army, Defense Department. ISBN-13 9781584876526. [A paper copy is available from the US Government Publishing Office (GPO), GPO Stock Number 008-000-01130-3. This document can also be read or downloaded as a PDF or in other formats for at http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1238.]

Web Sites

Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack. EMP Commission. No date.

Nuclear Deterrence. The RAND Corporation. 2015.

Nuclear Energy. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 2015.

Nuclear Weapons. Federation of American Scientists (FAS). No date.

Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project. LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin (Alan J. Kuperman). No date.

Special Weapons Primer: Ballistic Missile Basics. Federation of American Scientists (FAS). No date.

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA). No date.

Radiological

BIDDLE, Wayne.: 2012. A Field Guide to Radiation. New York, NY: Penguin Books/Penguin Group (USA). ISBN-13 9780143121275 (paperback).
GALE, Robert Peter, and Eric LAX.: 2013. Radiation: What It Is, What You Need to Know. (Originally published by Alfred A Knopf in 2013.) New York, NY: Vintage Books/Random House LLC. ISBN-13 9780307950208 (paperback).
MALLEY, Marjorie C.: 2011. Radioactivity: A History of a Mysterious Science. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN-13 9780199766413 (hardcover).

Web Sites

DNDO Agency Guidance on the GRaDER [Graduated Rad/Nuc Detector Evaluation and Reporting] Program. Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO), US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). 15 May 2014.

Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO). US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). 8 July 2014.

Fact Sheet on Dirty Bombs. US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). 12 December 2014.

National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). US Department of Energy (DOE). No date.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). University of Tennessee (UT)-Battelle for the US Department of Energy (DOE). No date.

Radiation Protection. US Environment Protection Agency (EPA). 6 February 2015.

Radiation Protection. US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). 30 September 2014.

Radiation Emergency Medical Management (REMM): Guidance on Diagnosis and Treatment for Health Care Providers. National Library of Medicine (NLM), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). No date.

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