| Containing the Threat from Illegal Bombings: An Integrated National Strategy for Marking, Tagging, Rendering Inert, and Licensing Explosives and Their Contributor(s): National Research Council (Author), Division on Engineering and Physical Sci (Author), Commission on Physical Sciences Mathemat (Author) |
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ISBN: 0309061261 ISBN-13: 9780309061261 Publisher: National Academies Press OUR PRICE: $72.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Security (national & International) - Technology & Engineering | Military Science |
| Dewey: 363.33 |
| LCCN: 98019665 |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 6.04" W x 9.01" (1.28 lbs) 382 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In response to the rising concern of the American public over illegal bombings, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms asked the National Research Council to examine possible mechanisms for reducing this threat. The committee examined four approaches to reducing the bombing threat: addition of detection markers to explosives for pre-blast detection, addition of identification taggants to explosives for post-blast identification of bombers, possible means to render common explosive materials inert, and placing controls on explosives and their precursors. The book makes several recommendations to reduce the number of criminal bombings in this country. |