| HOW SAFE ARE WE? Homeland Security Since 9/11 Janet Napolitano & Karen Breslau New York: PublicAffairs, 2019 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-54176222-0 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1541762223 | 215pp. | HC | $26.00 | |
| Page 9: | "Other components that went to DHS had been more recently established, including the Federal Agency of Emergency Management (1979)..." |
| Was that its original title? I've only ever heard it called the Federal Emergency Management Agency. |
| Pages 95-6: | "Coupled with the arming of cockpit doors and positive bagage management..." |
| Word choice: S/B "armoring". |
| Page 107: | "FDA agents read data from radiation sensors to detect the presence of a bioterrorism agent on an incoming plane, vehicle, vessel, or container." |
| Radiation sensors will not detect most bioterrorism agents, although polonium-210 (as used in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko) would be considered a bioterrorism agent, and that would be detectable by radiation sensors. |
| Page 108: | "Put another way, the NTC captures data in quantities that sound like they are borrowed from science fiction: exabytes and zettabytes and even yottabytes (named after Yoda from Star Wars)." |
| I think this is an incorrect assumption, possibly drawn from the reasonable reference to science fiction. I did find a definition of "yottabyte" that mentions Yoda, but it's only found on the Wayback Machine and only logged there since 2022. So perhaps I should say; "A wrong assumption you have made, yesss." |
| Page 144: | "In June 2017, the funding for that program as rescinded by the Trump administration." |
| Typo: S/B "was rescinded". |
| Page 168: | "Climate change is here, and it is not going anywhere, and its truly horrifying to know that the number of policy makers in this country who deny climate change is not insignificant." |
| Grammar: S/B "it's truly horrifying". |
| Page 175: | "This is an area where our 325 million American partners are needed as critically as anywhere else." |
| Earlier, the number of American partners is given as 350 million. |
| Page 183: | "The poverty and violence that drive migrants from Central America and Mexico north across the US border is not going to magically disappear." |
| Number error: S/B "are not going to". |
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