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Front Matter i-xiv
Summary 1-5
1 Introduction 6-10
2 The Critical Contribution of Risk Analysis to Risk Management and Reduction of Bioterrorism Risk 11-19
3 Description and Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security's Biological Threat Risk Assessment of 2006 20-33
4 Department of Homeland Security Decision Requirements for Risk Management 34-41
5 Risk Assessment for Unknown and Engineered Biothreat Agents 42-46
6 Improving Bioterrorism Consequence Assessment 47-50
7 Improving the Department of Homeland Security's Biological Threat Risk Assessment and Adding Risk Management 51-60
Appendix A: Lexicon 61-77
Appendix B: Mathematical Characterization of the Biological Threat Risk Assessment Event Tree and Risk Assessment 78-79
Appendix C: Computational Example Illustrating the Replacement of a Joint Distribution of Arc Probabilities with Marginal Expected Values of Individual Arc Probabilities 80-84
Appendix D: Bioterrorism Risk Analysis with Decision Trees 85-89
Appendix E: Optimizing Department of Homeland Security Defense Investments: Applying Defender-Attacker (-Defender) Optimization to Terror Risk Assessment and Mitigation 90-102
Appendix F: Combining Game Theory and Risk Analysis in Counterterrorism: A Smallpox Example 103-110
Appendix G: On the Quantification of Uncertainty and Enhancing Probabilistic Risk Analysis 111-115
Appendix H: Game Theory and Interdependencies 116-121
Appendix I: Review of BTRA Modeling 122-125
Appendix J: Reprinted Interim Report 126-148
Appendix K: Meeting Agendas 149-152
Appendix L: Biographies of Committee Members 153-156
Appendix M: Acronyms 157-158

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Department of Homeland Security Bioterrorism Risk Assessment: A Call for Change (2008)

Chapter: Appendix M: Acronyms

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Department of Homeland Security Bioterrorism Risk Assessment: A Call for Change (2008)

Chapter: Appendix M: Acronyms