Terrorism targeting industrial chemical facilities: Strategic motivations and implications for U.S. security

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An international terrorist attack on a domestic industrial chemical facility would cause mass casualties in the United States as more than 15,000 facilities throughout the country store, produce and transport industrial chemicals in substantial quantities. An attack would not only cause loss of lives or injuries to workers and those living around that area but it would detrimentally impact the nation's economy as chemical industry is the largest U.S. exporter, accounting for more than 10% of all exports by dollars.

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Ethno-psychological characteristics and terror-producing countries: linking uncertainty avoidance to terrorist acts in the 1970s

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All terror incidents from 1968-1979 are reviewed and related to Hofstadter's cultural value indices to explain why most of the world's terrorism occurs only in some countries. High uncertainty avoidance related to stress is identified as being a characteristic for group-induced terrorist acts in terror-producing countries.

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Terror politics and medicine: the role of leadership

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The core issue of medical management in time of terror attacks is establishing the right balance between the specific and peacetime routine. The measures taken to deal with these difficulties can serve as a model of contingency management in the field of medicine as well as in the other areas are discussed.

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