FrontMatter -- Preface -- Contents -- URBAN TERRORISM -- Analysis of the Threats and Consequences of Terrorist Acts in Urban Settings: Outline of a Protection System--Vladimir Z. Dvorkin -- Urban Security and September 11, 2001, in New York City: Projection of Threats onto a City as a Target and Measures to Avert Them or Minimize Their Impact--George Bugliarello -- Lessons Learned from the Nord-Ost Terrorist Attack in Moscow from the Standpoint of Russian Security and Law Enforcement Agencies--Yevgeny A. Kolesnikov -- Preventing Catastrophic Consequences of Bioterrorism in an Urban Setting--Vladimir G. Ivkov and Yevgeny A. Permyakov -- Toxic Chemicals and Explosive Materials: Terrorism-Related Issues for the Research Community, Chemical Industry, and Government--Alexander MacLachlan -- The Role of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Combating Terrorism in Urban Conditions--Sergey A. Starostin -- The Three R's: Lessons Learned from September 11, 2001--Robert Prieto -- The Role of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations and Executive Branch Agencies of the City of Moscow in Dealing with Emergency Situations Arising from Acts of Terrorism--Aleksandr M. Yeliseev -- CYBERTERRORISM -- A Perspective on Cybersecurity Research in the United States--Wm. A. Wulf and Anita K. Jones -- Analysis of the Threat of Cyberattacks to Major Transportation Control Systems in Russia--Mikhail B. Ignatyev -- Cyberattacks as an Amplifier in Terrorist Strategy--Lewis M. Branscomb -- Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism--Mikhail P. Sychev -- Protecting Bank Networks from Acts of Computer Terrorism--Boris I. Skorodumov -- Computer Security Training for Professional Specialists and Other Personnel Associated with Preventing and Responding to Computer Attacks--Anatoly A. Malyuk, Nikolai S. Pogozhin, and Aleksey I. Tolstoy.

Information Assurance Education in the United States--Anita K. Jones -- Technical Protection of Electronic Documents in Computer Systems--Valery A. Konyavsky -- Certain Aspects Regarding the Development of Conditions Favorable to Cyberterrorism and the Main Areas of Cooperation in the Struggle Against It--Igor A. Sokolov and Vladimir I. Budzko -- PAPERS PRESENTED TO THE NRC AND RAS COMMITTEES -- Problems of Combating Terrorism and Possible Areas for Russian-American Scientific Cooperation to Resolve Them --Valentin A. Sobolev -- Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism- A Report of the U.S. National Academies--Lewis M. Branscomb -- International Aspects of Creating a State System for Countering the Illegal Circulation of Radioactive Materials in the Russian Federation--Vladimir M. Kutsenko -- Medical Aspects of Combating Acts of Bioterrorism--Gennady G. Onishchenko -- Roots of Terrorism--Robert McC. Adams -- The Department of Homeland Security: Background and Challenges--Raphael Perl -- APPENDIXES -- APPENDIX A-Agendas -- APPENDIX B--Annex 2 To the Agreement of Cooperation in Science, Engineering, and Medicine Between the Russian Academy of Sciences and the U.S. National Academies--Russian-American Cooperation in Counterterrorism -- APPENDIX C--Comprehensive Training of Specialists to Counter Information Security Threats--Nikolai V. Medvedev -- APPENDIX D--Excerpts from "Bioterrorism: A National and Global Threat"--Gennady G. Onishchenko -- APPENDIX E--Biological Terrorism--Russ Zajtchuk and David Franz -- APPENDIX F--Top-Priority Problems for Scientific Research on the Information Security of the Russian Federation -- APPENDIX G--Proposal for a Chem-Bio Attack Response Center (CBARC) for Chicago, Illinois, U.S., 2003--Russ Zajtchuk, M.D., and Joe Petrovic.