National security [electronic resource]

• Tác giả: Kim Masters Evans
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1414433806
• ISBN: 9781414457642 (electronic book)
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 355.033 General history and description
• Thông tin xuất bản: Detroit, Mich. : Gale, ©2009.
• Bộ sưu tập: Xã hội, kinh tế, luật
• ID: 279497
• Chủ đề: 1. National security--History--United States; 2. National security--United States; 3. Terrorism--Prevention; 4. Terrorism; 5. War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Moral and ethical aspects; 6. War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; 7. Weapons of mass destruction

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tóm tắt

 Covers formation of the Department of Homeland Security, increased security measures at airports, the enactment of the Patriot Act of 2001, and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Provides the history of national security in the United States
  descriptions of the various conventional and nonproliferation treaties and regimes
  and information on countries of concern to the United States.