National security & homeland defense : challenges for the chemical sciences in the 21st century / Committee on Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Includes bibliographical references.

Initially, the Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century project was designed to be a series of five workshops encompassing the main technological areas to which the chemical sciences contribute. After the events of September 11, 2001, it was recognized that chemists and chemical engineers have always contributed significantly to our nation's defense capabilities and that now they will play an increasingly important part in homeland security. Thus, the National Security and Homeland Defense Workshop was arranged on an emergency basis. It is hoped that the presentations and discussions at the workshop found in this report will help chemical scientists understand how their research can be applied to national security problems and will guide them in new directions to ultimately enhance the safety of U.S. civilians and military personnel.

Support for this study was provided by the American Chemical Society; the American Institute of Chemical Engineers; the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under Contract No. MDA972-01-M-0001; the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. under Contract No. SG00-093; the National Institute of Standards and Technology under Contract No. NA1341-01-W-1070; the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute under Contract No. N01-OD-4-2139; the National Science Foundation under Contract No. CTS-9908440; the U.S. Department of Energy/Basic Energy Science under Contract No. DE-FG02-00ER15040; the U.S. Department of Energy/Office of Industrial Technologies under Contract No. DE-AT01-01EE41424; and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under Contract No. CR828233-01-0.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed March 15, 2013).

1. Introduction (basic science, systems and analysis, manufacturing) -- 2. Grand challenges (threat reduction, preparation, situational awareness, threat neutralization and remediation) -- 3. Specific challenges (threat reduction, preparation-medical countermeasures, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research, situational awareness, threat neutralization and remediation) -- 4. Research directions (threat reduction, preparation, situational awareness, threat neutralization and remediation).

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