Articles Tagged with ''terrorist attack''

Nearly half of terrorists crossing into the U.S. to perform violent acts or escaping from the country were American citizens. 

If terrorists or other extremist groups attacked an electrical substation, thousands could be without power for months, possibly resulting in hundreds or thousands of deaths in the event of extreme weather.

Two masked gunmen managed to evade authorities after a bizarre bank heist in which they strapped what they said was a bomb to the bank manager.

In a test to get medication to local citizens in the case of a bioterror attack, USPS personnel seemed to have scored high in an experiment started in Minneapolis and elsewhere this summer.

As reported previously by the Security Magazine Blog, an exercise including USPS workers delivering medicine to 2 million households impacted by a bioterror attack will continue this summer.

Military, DHS, healthcare security and hospital medical staff just conducted a training exercise specific to a dirty bomb attack related to the upcoming NATO meeting in Chicago.

About 40,000 Minnesota residents will go to their mailboxes Sunday, May 6, for a rare delivery: an empty pill bottle representing a powerful antibiotic that would be delivered in the event of a bioterrorism attack. More than 300 mail carriers will participate in the test, fanning out across four neighborhoods

The ongoing cost of a dirty bomb in downtown Los Angeles would measure around $16 billion, a University of Southern California research study concluded.

The Rick Rescorla National Award for Resilience is the first national resilience award for superior leadership and innovation by a nongovernmental individual or organization.

A recent study by researchers at Concordia University in Montreal has priced cleanup of facilities impacted by the 2001 anthrax attacks at about $320 million.