edited by R Ragaini (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)

This book contains the proceedings of the 31st International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies convened in Erice, Italy, on May 7–12, 2004. World leaders in their fields of Science, directors of National Laboratories, advisors to Presidents, Defence Secretaries and high-level diplomats converged at the event. Together, they offer different schools of thought to the widely-debated subject of Cultural Emergency and Terrorism. The subjects treated in this volume include societal and global approach to terrorism; responses to chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats, as well as challenges to emergency/risk management, media information and communication.

The proceedings have been selected for coverage in:

• Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings® (ISTP® / ISI Proceedings)

• Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)

• Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings® (ISSHP® / ISI Proceedings)

• Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings (ISSHP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)

• CC Proceedings — Engineering & Physical Sciences

• Regional Response to Terrorism (L Alurralde)
• Germany's Response to the Global Emergency (H Wegener)
• Chemical Terrorism — Five Strategic Challenges (R G Manley)
• Cross-disciplinary Mitigation of CBRNE Risk (S Leivesley)
• Safety Aspects of Asymmetric Threats (H Schubert)
• Danse Macabre: Terrorism and Western Media (M Stürmer)
• People: The Key Element in Disaster Response (G W McConnell)
• Cross-cultural and Cross-disciplinary Tools and Countermeasures Working Group Report (R G Manley & R K Huber)
• Cross-Disciplinary Challenges to Quantification of Risk Working Group Report (R Wilson & C R Penn)
• Counter-terrorism Post-Madrid 2004: Information Sharing and UNSCR 1540 (O Bosch)
• The Global Emergency: A Cross-disciplinary Approach to Risk (A R Green)
• TOPOFF 2: Appreciating the Importance of Disaster Drills (L Stein-Spencer)
• Globalisation of Terrorism (F Mehr)
• Terrorism and the Law of Talion (F Waelbroeck)
• and other papers