Permanent
Monitoring Panel for
Mitigation of Terrorist Acts
of the
World Federation of
Scientists.
World Federation of Scientists
CERN - LAA Experiment
Building #29
CH-1211 Geneva 23
Switzerland
e-mail: info@federationofscientists.org
INDEX of all
files on this site
This informal
website is primarily for information and discussion
between the present members of the PMP -MTA. This
main page is public but there is an associated
private website accessible only by password. In
addition access to some of the papers posted is only by the same
password
To post something on this
site, send it to the present webmaster
at wilson5@fas.harvard.edu. who
hopes that in due course a more direct method will be
possible
THE MOST RECENT REPORT IS FIRST;
earlier reports are at the end. BUT for a given
meeting the reports are in order
42nd SESSION OF
THE
INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS ON PLANETARY EMERGENCIES AND ASSOCIATED MEETINGS
Ettore
Majorana Center for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily
Workshop
of the Permenent Monitoring Panel on Mitigation of Terrorist Acts
24th and 25th August 2009
CBRN Terrorism Mitigation: One Science
for Global Cooperation to Mitigate Terrorist Acts
(CBRN = Chemical, Biological,
Radiological or Nuclear)
1.Overview
Overview
of CBRN Terrorism Mitigation,
password protected
Professor RL
Garwin
Politicization
in the Process of
International Cooperation to Mitigate Nuclear Terrorism: Some
Dubious
Results. Dr. V
Krivokhizha
India's
Response to the Prospect of
WMD Terrorism,
password protected
Professor R Rajaraman
Motivations
for Terrorism,
Lord John
Alderdice
Review
of Social and Political
Approaches to CBRN Terrorism,
Lord John Alderdice
2. Immediate Evaluation:
Nuclear, Radiological, Chemical and
Biological
Introduction
to the Development of CBRN Event
Mitigation,
Professor F Steinhausler
Immediate
Evaluation of Radiological
and Nuclear Attacks,
Professor RL
Garwin
One
Science for CBRN Mitigation,
password potected
Professor AL
Sobel M.D.
Notional
BW Exercise,
Professor A.L. Sobel, M.D.
3. Risk Communications and Near-real-time Evaluation of Terrorist
Acts
The
need for a corps of radiation workers for immediate assignment,
Richard Wilson
The
Position and the role of a
journalist on the spot after an unexpected disaster,
Bertil Galland
Immediate
Communications in the CBRN Environment,
Professor RV Duncan
Scientifically
Informed
Communications,
Professor R Wilson
4. Recovery 100 Days after
Terrorist Acts
Scenario
CBRN Post-Attack 100 Days:
Recovery, Risk and Communication,
Professor F Steinhausler
5. Summary
CBRN
Terrorism Mitigation, New Aspects,
Professor F. Steinhausler and Professor
A.L. Sobel
Contributors and Attendees
Dr Sally
Leivesley (Chair)
Lord John Alderdice
Dr Diego Buriot (Absent)
Professor Rob V Duncan (Observer)
Bertil Galland (Observer)
Professor Richard L Garwin
Dr Vasiliy I Krivokhizha
Dr Alan Leigh Moore (Co-Chair,
Absent)
Professor R Rajaraman
Professor Annette L Sobel M.D.
Professor Friedrich Steinhausler
Professor Richard Wilson
(Absent)
Lyudmila Zaitseva (Observer)
Attendees at
selected sessions
Dr Carl O.
Bauer
Dr Michael C MacCracken
Dr James Rispoli
Previous
important Documents of the Panel
Synthesis
of 2004 position papers
Submission
to US
Nuclear Regulatory Commission on a hearing about Radiological
Dispersion Devices (dirty bombs)
Responding
to the prospect of Dirty Dust (Radiological Dispersal Device)
Report In August 2008
NCRP_Commentary_19.pdf
Radiation_Exposure_incident_in
Goiana_(Brazil)
"The Risks of Extinction"
Paper by Matheny
Websites of Important related organizaions
associated private website
Other Documents discussed or proposed to be discussed by PMP-MTA
Planning guide for Nuclear
detonations
(DHS 2009)
Security
of
Radioactive sources
- Bunn and
Bielefeld
July
2009 agreement of EU and CERN to cooperat
Applying
uncommon Sense to Risks by Greenberg and Lowrie