Homeland Security Links

The content of this page is provided by the DNP Ad Hoc Homeland Security Committee.

Agencies

• U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
  • Information for Universities, Laboratories, and Industry
  • Detection Systems for Radiological and Nuclear Countermeasure (DSRNC)
    Bidder's conference announcement
• National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
• Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency Solicitaions and Teaming Portal (HSARPA)

Other Links

• CDC Radiation Emergencies
• Health Physics Society discussion of radiological "dirty bombs"
• Health Physics Society summary of historical accidents involving radiation exposure (ppt 103 kbyte).
• U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Fact Sheet of radiological "dirty bombs"
• National Nuclear Data Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Nuclear Information Service at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• The Isotope Project at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Report of the Workshop on the Role of the Nuclear Physics Research Community in Combatting Terrorism, July 11-12, 2002, Washington, D.C.

Literature

• Radiation Protection in the Aftermath of a Terrorist Radiation Protection in the Aftermath of a Terrorist
  Attack Involving Exposure to Ionizing Radiatio Attack Involving Exposure to Ionizing Radiation (PDF 10.4 MByte) by Abel J. González, April 2004.
• Management of Terrorist Events Involving Radioactive Material—National Council on Radiation Protection
  and Measurements Report 138.
• Weapons of Mass Disruption by Michael A. Levi and Henry C. Kelly, Scientific American November 2002, page 77.
• Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism (The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2002) 440 p.—Report of the Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism, National Research Council of the National Academies.