03801nam 2200685Ia 450 991095746350332120251116220215.09786610934737978030917971303091797189781280934735128093473597803091091610309109167(CKB)1000000000475780(EBL)3564117(SSID)ssj0000131367(PQKBManifestationID)11129327(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000131367(PQKBWorkID)10013453(PQKB)11249077(Au-PeEL)EBL3564117(CaPaEBR)ebr10180638(CaONFJC)MIL93473(OCoLC)182575013(MiAaPQ)EBC3564117(Perlego)4735450(BIP)14229284(EXLCZ)99100000000047578020070831d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCountering the threat of improvised explosive devices basic research opportunities, abbreviated version /National Research Council Committee on Defeating Improvised Explosive Devices: Basic Research to Interrupt the IED Delivery Chain [et. al.]1st ed.Washington, D.C. National Academies Pressc20071 online resource (36 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780309109154 0309109159 Includes bibliographical references.""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""References""; ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A Committee Membership""; ""Appendix B Summary of Data-Gathering Meetings""; ""Appendix C Glossary""Attacks in London, Madrid, Bali, Oklahoma City and other places indicate that improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are among the weapons of choice of terrorists throughout the world. Scientists and engineers have developed various technologies that have been used to counter individual IED attacks, but events in Iraq and elsewhere indicate that the effectiveness of IEDs as weapons of asymmetric warfare remains. The Office of Naval Research has asked The National Research Council to examine the current state of knowledge and practice in the prevention, detection, and mitigation of the effects of IEDs and make recommendations for avenues of research toward the goal of making these devices an ineffective tool of asymmetric warfare. The book includes recommendations such as identifying the most important and most vulnerable elements in the chain of events leading up to an IED attack, determining how resources can be controlled in order to prevent the construction of IEDs, new analytical methods and data modeling to predict the ever-changing behavior of insurgents/terrorists, a deeper understanding of social divisions in societies, enhanced capabilities for persistent surveillance, and improved IED detection capabilities.BombingsPolitical violenceBombings.Political violence.363.325/16National Research Council (U.S.).Committee on Defeating Improvised Explosive Devices: Basic research to Interrupt the IED Delivery Chain.National Research Council (U.S.).Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology.National Research Council (U.S.).Naval Studies Board.Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910957463503321Countering the threat of improvised explosive devices4356977UNINA