Science and Technology to Counter Terrorism Proceedings of an Indo-U.S. Workshop (2007) / Chapter Skim
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Narayanan, discussion moderator, stated that in his experience science and technology help in efforts to strengthen key aspects of urban infrastructure, but there was still a problem of matching technology with intelligence; the latter always seemed to follow, rather than precede, a terrorist event. There is a major divide between the world of the intelligence practitioner and that of the scientist and technologist.
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India has very few emergency operations centers, and those that exist are illequipped to deal with an RDD. While India's nuclear installations are well protected, the tracking of radioisotopes, which can be used in a dirty bomb, in hospitals and other places is lax, partly because of the cost, and there have already been several instances of theft of radioactive materials from hospitals and other facilities.
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That is something that needs to be examined if we are going to face either natural disruption or a terrorist attack. Transformers are a choke point, Garwin observed.
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Under the auspices of the National Institute of Advanced Studies, he spent 3 days at Ground Zero some 2 years after the event, and visited Washington, D.C. He was impressed by the way in which the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the state Emergency Management Agency, and the New York City disaster organization made decisions on how to respond to the communities needs; they had a structure there, on the ground.
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The Indian approach is to identify various aspects of the infrastructure that are vulnerable, identify those that have to be protected, whether there is intelligence of an impending terrorist attack on them or not (for example, the nuclear infrastructure, transportation, civil aviation) and for the rest of the infrastructure, take protective action only if there is specific intelligence of a likely threat from a terrorist organization.
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Fingerprints are good enough, but facial recognition is far from adequate now. Garwin also commented on sensor grids for the detection of radioactive sources that could be used in a radiological dispersal device.
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In response, Garwin noted that these were explored several years ago, and a grid of sensors, or having them placed on buses (for early deployment) , made sense.
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