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Emergency Management and the New Terrorism Threat

The focus of emergency management in the United States has evolved over time as new risks were identified and methods for dealing with these risks were developed. In the early part of the 20th century, ad hoc responses to catastrophic disasters and the implementation of large scale public works projects designed to reduce risks, such as the levee building projects of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, were the norm.

The advent of the Cold War in the 1950s resulted in the establishment Civil Defense programs around the country with their focus on preparing for nuclear war. A series of large scale disasters in the 1960s and 1970s focused the nation’s Governors to prompt the Federal government to consolidate its emergency management functions into one agency and so FEMA was formed in 1979 with the mission of providing a single Federal entity to work with State and local governments to respond to disasters.

FEMA’s mission......

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