Disaster via Airmail: The Launching of a Global Reaction Capacity After the 2001 Anthrax Attacks

In this new century, increasing interdependence among people and organizations is creating a new web of challenges. “Unconventional” events—large-scale disasters and disruptions—that evidence the effect of interdependency are becoming the norm. In the past five years alone, the United States has experienced an array of events in this category resulting in dramatic losses and revealing profound vulnerabilities: the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Anthrax attacks, the Enron collapse,