Strategic National Risk Assessment Essay

At a local and state level, first responders have a considerable amount of risks responding to an international terrorist event on US soil. Depending on the magnitude of the terrorist threat, first responders must gather information of the threat to reduce the risks associated with that terrorist event. These risks could come in many forms that could disrupt the quality-of-life within communities and our nation.

The United States have certain strategy that can be apply to how first responders will respond to a terrorism. This process is called “Treat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment Guide” (THIRA). Also, to supplement the THIRA, the “Strategic National Risk Assessment” (SNRA). By implementing these two strategies, first responders can have a clear analyzes of the greatest risks to our Nation.

However, though there are three types of threats, technological and human-caused are two types of threats that need to be identified because of the potential risks to our nation. According to research terrorism comes in many forms such as hijacking airliners, car and truck bombs, chemical bombs, rocket and missile attacks, ambushes and chemical/nuclear/biological attacks (Newman, R. G., Clarke, V. R, 2008).

In addition to these forms of terrorism, terrorist will attempt to seek and build weapons of mass destruction (WMD)to cause mass causalities. For example, terrorists used a car/truck bombs as weapon to attack the World Trade Center (WTC). However, the terrorist did not accomplish what was supposed to be mass causality attack, so in 2001, terrorists used aircraft’s as missiles to attack the World Trade Center