Responding to Catastrophic Events

PART I: BACKGROUND 1. Dealing with Disaster; Jeffrey Larsen 2. What Just Happened? Situational Awareness, Threat Characterization and Effective Consequence Management; James Wirtz 3.The Tyranny of Time: The Challenge of First Response; Jerry Barnhill PART II: FEDERAL RESPONSE 4. Federal Response: Assisting without Overwhelming; Greg Moser and Garry Briese 5. Homeland Security and Defense; Richard Love 6. Department of Defense Response: The Evolving Mission; Pat Allen Pentland PART III: RELATED ISSUES 7. Legal Issues Associated with a Catastrophic Domestic Incident; G. Roderick Gillette 8. Communications: The Critical Function; George Haddow 9. Foreign Consequence Management; Brian Lewis PART IV: CASE STUDIES 10. Terror on the Tokyo Subway: Aum Shinrikyo and WMD Consequence Management; Erin Mahan 11. Hurricane Katrina and Consequence Management; Jessica Iannotti 12. Fractured Response: Lessons for WMD Consequence Management from Hurricane Katrina and the 1995 Tokyo Subway Attack; Shane Smith PART V: CONCLUSION 13. Consequence Management and National Security; Kerry Kartchner