Containing the threat from illegal bombings : an integrated national strategy for marking, tagging, rendering inert, and licensing explosives and their precursors / Committee on Marking, Rendering Inert, and Licensing of Explosive Materials, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Marking, Rendering Inert, and Licensing of Explosive Materials.

National Research Council (U.S.). Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taggants.

Explosives industry--Licenses--United States.

Explosives industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Improving the Capability to Detect Explosives""; ""3 Taggants for Preblast and Postblast Identification of Explosives""; ""4 Rendering Explosive Materials Inert""; ""5 Limiting Criminal Access to Explosives and Precursor Chemicals""; ""Bibliography""; ""A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members""; ""B Statement of Task""; ""C Committee Meetings""; ""D Summary of Presentations and Materials from Marker and Taggant Vendors""

""E Summary of Presentations and Materials from Nonfederal Stakeholders""""F Summary of European Site Visit""; ""G An Analysis of the Legal Issues Attendant to the Marking, Inerting, or Regulation of Explosive Materials""; ""H Test to Evaluate Detonability""; ""I Laboratories Capable of Testing""; ""J Probabilistic Aspects of Taggant Recovery""; ""K Criteria for Ranking Common Explosive Chemicals""; ""L “Be Aware for America� Survey""; ""M Components of Explosive Systems""; ""N Glossary""; ""O Acronyms and Abbreviations""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-163) and index.

ISBN:

9780309174350

030917435X

9780309522274

0309522277

9780585023069

0585023069

OCLC:

923258589