Containing the Threat from Illegal Bombings: An Integrated National Strategy for Marking, Tagging, Rendering Inert, and Licensing Explosives and Their Precursors

National Research Council

doi:10.17226/5966

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Containing the Threat from Illegal Bombings

An Integrated National Strategy for Marking, Tagging, Rendering Inert, and Licensing Explosives and Their Precursors

(1998)

In response to the rising concern of the American public over illegal bombings, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms asked the National Research Council to examine possible mechanisms for reducing this threat. The committee examined four approaches to reducing the bombing threat: addition of detection markers to explosives for pre-blast detection, addition of identification taggants to explosives for post-blast identification of bombers, possible means to render common explosive materials inert, and placing controls on explosives and their precursors. The book makes several recommendations to reduce the number of criminal bombings in this country.

Contributor(s): National Research Council; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences; Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications; Committee on Marking, Rendering Inert, and Licensing of Explosive Materials

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Reducing the Threat of Improvised Explosive Device Attacks by Restricting Access to Explosive Precursor Chemicals: Key Recommendations

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Conflict and Security Issues —Prevention, Security and Response

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National Research Council. 1998. Containing the Threat from Illegal Bombings: An Integrated National Strategy for Marking, Tagging, Rendering Inert, and Licensing Explosives and Their Precursors. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/5966.

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384 pages | 6 x 9 |

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Paperback: 978-0-309-06126-1
Ebook: 978-0-309-17435-0

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/5966

Chapters		skim
Front Matter	i-xii
Executive Summary	1-19
1 Introduction	20-39
2 Improving the Capability to Detect Explosives	40-71
3 Taggants for Preblast and Postblast Identification of Explosives	72-95
4 Rendering Explosive Materials Inert	96-115
5 Limiting Criminal Access to Explosives and Precursor Chemicals	116-158
Bibliography	159-164
Appendix A	165-172
Appendix B	173-176
Appendix C	177-181
Appendix D	182-190
Appendix E	191-197
Appendix F	198-214
Appendix G	215-340
Appendix H	341-343
Appendix I	344-346
Appendix J	347-351
Appendix K	352-355
Appendix L	356-358
Appendix M	359-362
Appendix N	363-368
Appendix O	369-370

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