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Cooperative Threat Reduction
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
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2001
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Cooperative Threat Reduction a
Department of Defense program implemented in November 1991, at the end of the
Cold War, as a measure to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons systems. It was established to assist the new independent states of the former Soviet Union in the storage, transportation, dismantlement, and elimination of nuclear weapons from the Soviet era.
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 "Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)")
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Threats keep local schools on alert.
Newspaper article from: Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA); 5/1/2007; 700+ words
; ...spring spike in bomb threats, which can lead to...are caught making a threat can range from expulsion...place for handling threats, and school officials...Schools, said every threat must be taken seriously, but threats similar to the one...
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Threats keep local schools on alert.(Local)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 5/1/2007; 700+ words
; ...spring spike in bomb threats, which can lead to...are caught making a threat can range from expulsion...place for handling threats, and school officials...chools , said every threat must be taken seriously, but threats similar to the one...
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Threat Expert - Global Threat Research Site Launched.
Business Wire; 9/20/2007; 700+ words
; ...information on thousands of threats, a world threat atlas and current advice...constant influx of new threats. Automated threat analysis, Threat Expert...said Clausen. Suspected threats can be submitted to Threat Expert via a web submission...
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Threat materiel solutions for Army acquisition
Magazine article from: Army AL & T; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...center (RDEC) concerned about the foreign threat to your program, then this article is...acquisition and testing communities with threat products (hardware and simulations) needed to satisfy their threat analysis and testing objectives. The...
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Threats put schools on edge
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA; 10/23/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Shore because of threats of violence. Yesterday...was disrupted by a threat scrawled on a bathroom...thinks most such threats are pranks, and...of this week's threat because it was directed...had been a general threat, we would have responded...admitted writing threats targeting 10 ...
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 "Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)")
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Threats taken seriously
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 12/13/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Superintendent John Burgart said no threat so far has turned out to be...one is taken seriously. Bomb threats cause alarm, even when they turn out to be nothing.A threat at Hempstead High School in...where we didn't have any such threats made. This year, we had a...
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Threat on the horizon. (need for defense contractors to closely monitor threats to their technology)
Magazine article from: Security Management; 11/1/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...answered by examining how threat is assessed and how countermeasures...An analysis of certain threats and the capabilities...establishing countermeasures. Threat can be defined as the...management sometimes assumes threat should only be addressed...measures. However, threats against defense ...
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Assessing threats directed at school facilities
Magazine article from: Law & Order; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...involved explosives. The threat makers either did not...considering the way many bomb threats are handled. Most readers...in response to a bomb threat. While doing so, answer...need to evaluate the threat. The short time it takes...personal injury. Bomb threats are so common and the...
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Bomb threat assessments. (Focus on School Violence).
Magazine article from: The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...assessing school bomb threats, investigators first...question whether the threat passes the reality...and store. His threat failed the reality...evacuated. Further, threats from purportedly...individuals assessing threats, providing these...example of the lesser threat, an error ...
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 "Barrington Courier-Review (IL)")
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Threats hit schools
Newspaper article from: Barrington Courier-Review (IL); 5/22/2008; 700+ words
; ...area that have received threats recently. Mundelein...receive two e-mailed bomb threats Jan. 25. Police check...making a false terrorist threat, a felony. Chicago...Grayslake Middle School Bomb threats are found April 14 and...Middle School A bomb threat is found on the bathroom...
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Terrorism, Intelligence Based Threat and Risk Assessments
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
...used in making the threat assessment. Fortunately, the threat passed, but the issue...to handle suspected threats has not been resolved...Technologies, and Threats in the 1990s. New...Assessing Terror Threat Raises Whitehall Tension...
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Stereotype Threat
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Stereotype Threat Stereotype threat is a term coined by social psychologists Claude Steele and Joshua...stereotype that is held about their group. This psychological threat can undermine successful performance of tasks and activities...
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Terrorist Threat Integration Center
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
...provides integrated terrorist threat analysis for the senior national...include compiling the "daily threat matrix" that is instrumental...analysis of potential terrorist threats to U.S. interests and will...government hub for all terrorist threat-related analytic work. As...
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Threats
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...among other things, the use of threats to prevent another from engaging in...be prosecuted as extortion. A mere threat that does not cause any harm is generally...mental or emotional suffering caused by threats or unlawful communications. In those...
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Radiological Threat Analysis
Book article from: World of Forensic Science
Radiological Threat Analysis Many countries have stocks...Therefore, there is an ongoing threat of release of significant amounts...take precautions to deal with such threats. Radiological threat analysis starts with assessing and...
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