TY - BOOK ID - 77883211 TI - Chasing phantoms PY - 2011 SN - 1469603233 0807877697 9780807877692 9781469603230 9780807834701 9798893132663 PB - Chapel Hill, N.C. University of North Carolina Press DB - UniCat KW - Imagery (Psychology) KW - Emergency management KW - Civil defense KW - Terrorism KW - Imagery, Mental KW - Images, Mental KW - Mental imagery KW - Mental images KW - Imagination KW - Visualization KW - Homeland defense KW - Homeland security KW - Prevention. KW - United States KW - Prevention UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77883211 AB - Although a report by the congressionally mandated Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Proliferation, and Terrorism concluded that biological or nuclear weapons were very likely to be unleashed in the years soon after 2001, what Americans actually have experienced are relatively low-tech threats. Yet even under a new administration, extraordinary domestic and international policies enacted by the U.S. government in the wake of 9/11 remain unchanged. Political scientist and former FBI consultant Michael Barkun argues that a nonrational, emotion-driven obsession with dang ER -