Johnston's Archive Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Unconventional Warfare

List of worst terrorist acts

Incidents of mass casualty terrorism

Map of worst terrorist attacks worldwide

Data on international terrorism

Nuclear terrorism incidents

Osama bin Laden and nuclear weapons

Dirty bombs and other radiological weapons

What is terrorism?

Terrorist and criminal attacks targeting children

Selected terrorist incidents worldwide, through September 2000

Chronology of terrorist attacks in Israel:

• Chronology of terrorist attacks in Israel, introduction
• Part 1: 1949-1967
• Part 2: 1968-1980
• Part 3: 1981-1992
• Part 4: 1993-2000
• Part 5: 2001
• Part 6: 2002
• Part 7: 2003
• Part 8: 2004
• Part 9: 2005
• Part 10: 2006-2008

Summary of terrorist attacks in Israel

Worst terrorist attacks in Israel

Death rates from terrorism, United States and Israel, 1993-2003 (graph)

Data on rocket attacks on Israel, June-August 2006

Chronology of events related to the war with terrorism:

• Part 1: before 11 September 2001
• Part 2: 11 September 2001
• Part 3: after 11 September to end of 2001
• Part 4: 2002 (under construction)

Selected terrorist incidents in the United States, through September 2000

Presidential addresses regarding the attack of 11 September 2001

Text of President George W. Bush's address to the nation, 11 September 2001
Text of President George W. Bush's address to Congress, 20 September 2001
Text of President George W. Bush's address to the nation, 7 October 2001
Text of President George W. Bush's press conference, 11 October 2001
Text of President George W. Bush's speech on 8 November 2001

Presidential addresses regarding Iraq, 2002-2003

Text of President George W. Bush's remarks to the United Nations General Assembly, 12 September 2002
Text of President George W. Bush's address regarding Iraq, 7 October 2002
Text of President George W. Bush's address regarding ultimatum to Iraq, 17 March 2003
Text of President George W. Bush's address announcing operations to disarm Iraq, 19 March 2003
Text of President George W. Bush's address announcing end of major combat operations in Iraq, 1 May 2003
Text of President George W. Bush's address to the nation regarding Iraq, 7 September 2003
Text of President George W. Bush's address to the United Nations, 23 September 2003
Text of President George W. Bush's address to troops in Iraq on Thanksgiving Day, 27 November 2003
Text of President George W. Bush's address to the nation on the capture of Saddam Hussein, 14 December 2003
Text of President George W. Bush's address regarding Iraqi elections, 30 January 2005

"Iraq violated 12-year-old deal"
     see also at The Brownsville Herald.

Yossef Bodansky: some writings

Information links

• Government:
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  • Central Intelligence Agency.
  • Department of Defense.
  • Department of State Counterterrorism Office.
  • Environmental Protection Agency.
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation.
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency.
  • General Accounting Office.
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Counterterrorism and Incident Response Project.
  • National Domestic Preparedness Office.
  • National Infrastructure Protection Center.
  • Office of Homeland Security.
  • White House.

• Organizations:
  • American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise.
  • Borr.
  • Brookings Institute.
  • CATO Institute.
  • Center for Defense Information.
  • Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
  • Center for Strategic and International Studies.
  • Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at University of St. Andrews.
  • Counter-Terrorism Page.
  • ERRI Counter-Terrorism Archive.
  • Federation of American Scientists.
  • Heritage Foundation.
  • ICT International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism.
  • JURIST Legal Education Network.
  • MIPT Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism.
  • National Security Archive at George Washington University.
  • National Security Institute.
  • National Terrorism Preparedness Institute at St. Petersburg College.
  • Political Terrorism Database.
  • Safe Havens International.
  • South Asia Terrorism Portal.
  • Speech and Transcript Center at George Washington University.
  • Terrorism Library.
  • Terrorism Research Center.
  • United Nations.
  • United States Institute of Peace.
  • Vanderbilt University.

Some recommended terrorism and counterterrorism documents

Banner image: Flag raising over fire-damaged portion of the Pentagon two days after the attack on 11 September 2001 (credit: White House photo by Paul Morse).

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