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Balancing Prevention and Mitigation Approaches to an Uncertain Terrorist Threat — Dec. 12, 2008

Dept. Homeland Security Sec. Chertoff at a 2008 press conference with TSA Admin. Hawley

While traditional terrorism-prevention measures seek to prevent all damage by stopping attacks completely, the author recommends also adopting measures that seek to prevent only some of the damage from attacks, but that do so predictably across the many different ways in which they might occur, drawing examples from aviation security policy.

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