Assessing the terrorist threat: How great a risk?

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Experts believe that despite the realistic concern for a nuclear terrorist attack, the 'ultimate catastrophe' can be prevented with the right plan. A "Doctrine of Three Nos", which outlines a series of strict guidelines for securing and containing nuclear materials, is presented, along with the contention that the prevention of nuclear terrorism will only succeed if there is serious cooperation among nations.

United States, Legal issues & crime, Methods, Company legal issue, Investigations, Emergency management, Emergency preparedness, Nuclear terrorism, Antiterrorism measures

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Can America remember its past? The threat of cultural amnesia

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Issues are presented concerning the importance which a knowledge of history can bring to the prevention of cultural amnesia. The maintenance of democratic traditions during periods of rapid technological change is discussed.

Influence, Political aspects, Democracy, History, Culture

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A Thanksgiving to remember

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A personal experience of spending Thanksgiving Day 1989 in Prague in the middle of mass antigovernment demonstrations that led to the downfall of the Czechoslovakian Politburo, is presented.

Personal narratives, Demonstrations and protests, Czechoslovakia, Thanksgiving Day

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