Most people point to the Sept. 11,2001, attacks as the prompt for homeland security in the U.S. But that prompt came more than six years earlier, with the April 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. That blast killed 168 people - including 19 children under the age of 6 - injured more than 680, and destroyed or damaged 324 buildings within a 16-block radius. That single act of domestic terrorism sparked the expansion of terrorism training and exercise topics across North America. The more-devastating events of 9/11 introduced foreign-born terrorism to the U.S. That day prompted the creation of both the Department of Homeland Security and the National Incident Management System, the funding of emergency operations centers at state and local levels, and the development of fusion centers. While fire and emergency.
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机译:大多数人指出2001年9月11日的袭击是美国国土安全的提示。但是,这种提示是在6年前,1995年4月,俄克拉荷马城的Alfred P. Murrah联邦大楼遭到轰炸。爆炸炸死了168人,包括19名6岁以下的儿童,造成680多人受伤,并摧毁或破坏了16个街区范围内的324座建筑物。家庭恐怖主义的这一单一行为引发了整个北美恐怖主义培训和演习主题的扩展。 9/11更具破坏性的事件将外国出生的恐怖主义引入美国。那天,美国成立了国土安全部和国家事件管理系统,并在州和地方两级建立了应急行动中心,发展融合中心。同时发生火灾和紧急情况。
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