Friday, August 18, 2006

Considering the Effects of a Catastrophic Terrorist Attack / Rand Technical Report, 2006

PDF - http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2006/RAND_TR391.pdf
Charles Meade, Roger C. Molander
In recent years, there has been a growing concern that targeted acts of terrorism, focused on critical economic infrastructure, could produce cascading social and economic effects on a very wide scale. The authors carry out a scenario analysis and strategic gaming revolving around a catastrophic terrorist attack on the Port of Long Beach. The authors describe the results from this investigation and provide many of the primary results from the analysis in the appendixes. The analysis tools developed by the authors for this study lay the groundwork for research exploring both the short- and long-term effects of catastrophic events.