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National security?
I'm doing a report on national security and the manner in which privacy was violated. I need information on it or a link some information about it.
Try www.ACLU.org You can search the top national security or the Patriot Act, etc. They have lots of information.
Homeland Security
For starters, the term "Homeland Security" is not used in any other English speaking country except the U.S., officially refers to the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and unofficially for all efforts to protect, secure and prepare America against internal and external threats. DHS developed during the Bush administration in 2002. National security also applies to the joint efforts of the American people to protect and secure themselves and their homeland.
The DHS was created to help prepare and disseminate emergency information to protect America against internal and external threats. In short, a threat outside may be a nuclear threat from another group or country, chemical and biological hazards, and even level of pandemic diseases like influenza very recent. Threats All types of domestic natural disasters, catastrophic weather events, uncontrolled fires, earthquakes can not be addressed at the national level of risk, but the present local devastation.
External threats
Nuclear Threat
Nuclear threat is something the Homeland Security Department is very concerned because these days a relatively small group can acquire a small nuclear device and produce nuclear devastation on American homeland. Since the days of the Cold War, a nuclear threat is something of great interest to the U.S. government (and most interesting National Security), but now the small terrorist groups ranks of former armed countries and for this the severity of the emergency. Perhaps fear nuclear war is no longer sustainable, because the world seems to be "growing" in some respect, but now the terrorist groups in the fires, alarms DHS.
Chemical Hazard
A chemical hazard is by definition an external threat (always generated by a group of foreigners or country), is the release of potentially dangerous to humans and / or the environment in the short or long term. A chemical hazard can occur as a terrorist act or act of war, but could be an unfortunate incident, the two are the responsibility of the Department of Homeland Security.
Occur more often chemical accidents in industrial facilities where toxic materials are stored.
Biological Hazards
The biological risk also known as "Biohazard" is any substance that is a derivative of an agency or organization that really poses a threat to human life or other forms of life. This dangerous substance was spilled in the environment and hence affect the life, causing death most horrible of times by the disease.
There are 4 levels of biohazard.
- At this level precautions for biological hazards are minimal. These are like viruses day.
- Illnesses caused by biological risks are mild and easily manageable.
- The viruses that cause serious diseases including death. Vaccines are available.
- Bacteria or viruses cause serious and fatal diseases for which no vaccine or antidote.
Pandemic Disease Level
Pandemic diseases (such as avian H1N1) are not out of terrorist groups or countries, but mainly cause of infectious disease that spreads among the major regions of the human occupied territory. National security and the Homeland Security Department is responsible for this type Emergency carefully. Often, the best source to counter pandemic diseases is accurate emergency information.
The recent H1N1 influenza has been an increased level of pandemic diseases. Pandemic threats are almost always generated naturally, Influenza H1N1 was effectively controlled.
Some of the further spread of pandemic diseases through history:
- Influenza
- Typhus
- Cholera
- other
"Homeland Defense" connotes the military aspect, but Homeland Security also carries a "civil" meaning. It means that the efforts of the American people to affirm the security of the homeland.
The national security concept, at least in the United States, combining the efforts of several agencies, in 2002, was refurbished by the administration of George W. Bush to form a more centralized unit. The agencies comprising the Department National Security include:
- United States National Guard
- United States Secret Service
- Guard U.S.
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
- other
But the agencies are not the whole Department of Homeland Security, a large part the work is done in other agencies like the CIA and the FBI. According to the website of the White House on National Security, the president of the United States is "committed to secure the homeland against the threats of the 21st century ... "and that, according to the document primarily includes terrorist attacks, all types of emergencies and investment in" strong " the answers you need. What the document does not clearly say is what a "threat" and that defines it.
Article by Hernan Moreno Home Security Tips, advice and Directory
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