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PAPERS PRESENTED TO THE NRC AND RAS COMMITTEES Problems of Combating Terrorism and Possible Areas for Russian-American Scientific Cooperation to Resolve Them
Pages 143-148

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From page 145...
... Russia actively supports the measures against international terrorism being taken by the world community, with the United Nations and its Security Council playing the central coordinating role. Our country has made an important contribution to strengthening the international antiterrorist coalition and consistently pursues a policy of creating a global system to counter these new challenges and threats on the basis of international law.
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From page 146...
... The terrorist acts committed in recent years in Russian cities, the actions of September 11, 2001, in New York City, the bloody events in Indonesia and the Philippines, the seizure of the concert hall in Moscow in October 2002, and the loss of life at the administrative complex in the city of Grozny have shown the entire world what a dangerous and vicious enemy we are dealing with. These events have convinced all right-minded people that international terrorism is a real force and an ominous threat to the future of all humanity.
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From page 147...
... The difficulty of combating this sort of terrorism is illustrated by the recent threats to infect the population with anthrax, the pathogen for which was spread through the mail in the United States. Even though preparations to respond to a possible biological attack began in the United States in the mid-1990s, a network of diagnostic laboratories was created to rapidly detect pathogens and notify the various intelligence services, and broad-scale training exercises were conducted, all of these efforts proved to be insufficient to protect society against this case of biological terrorism.
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From page 148...
... In our view, problems requiring scientific evaluation include the following: · ensuring the security of the global information infrastructure and its national components · ensuring control over the spread of technologies used in deriving or processing materials and compounds that could be used to inflict mass casualties · developing a new approach to resolving problems of the spread of dualuse technologies and preventing them from falling into the hands of terrorists · creating a system for detecting evidence of preparations for terrorist acts involving the use of high technologies Of course, this list does not fully cover all the problems associated with the study of terrorism as a social phenomenon. It will probably be augmented significantly as a result of discussions on this topic at the seminars held at this workshop.
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