Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Assessment of the Bureau of Reclamation's Security Program
One lesson from the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon is that infrastructure built for beneficial purposes can become an instrument of mass destruction if it fails as the result of a malicious act. Dams and their related infrastructure are primarily built to control the flow of a river and mitigate flooding. The water impounded behind a dam can be used to generate power and to provide water for drinking, irrigation, commerce, industry, and recreation. However, if a dam fails, the water that would be unleashed has the energy and power to cause mass destruction downstream, killing and injuring people and destroying property, agriculture, industry, and local and regional economies. The significance of dams as vehicles of mass destruction has not gone unrecognized. Serbian forces attempted to blow up the Peruaea dam in Croatia in 1993 during the Serbo-Croatian War. Hoover Dam was identified as a potential target for enemy forces during World War II, and the sabotage of Glen Canyon Dam was fictionalized in the 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang.
Assessment of the Bureau of Reclamation's Security Program
One lesson from the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon is that infrastructure built for beneficial purposes can become an instrument of mass destruction if it fails as the result of a malicious act. Dams and their related infrastructure are primarily built to control the flow of a river and mitigate flooding. The water impounded behind a dam can be used to generate power and to provide water for drinking, irrigation, commerce, industry, and recreation. However, if a dam fails, the water that would be unleashed has the energy and power to cause mass destruction downstream, killing and injuring people and destroying property, agriculture, industry, and local and regional economies. The significance of dams as vehicles of mass destruction has not gone unrecognized. Serbian forces attempted to blow up the Peruaea dam in Croatia in 1993 during the Serbo-Croatian War. Hoover Dam was identified as a potential target for enemy forces during World War II, and the sabotage of Glen Canyon Dam was fictionalized in the 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang.
Assessment of the Bureau of Reclamation's Security Program
2008
146 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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