Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, National Defense Research Institute, 2004. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xviii, 47, [1] pages. Includes Introduction, Preface, Tables, Summary, Acknowledgments, Acronyms. and Bibliography, and chapters on The Vulnerability of U.S. Agriculture to Bio-Attacks; Potential Impact of a Major Act of Agroterrorism, and Policy Recommendations. Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense. This book aims to expand the current debate on domestic homeland security by assessing the vulnerabilities of the agricultural sector and the food chain to a deliberate act of biological terrorism and exploring the likely outcomes of a successful attack. Peter Chalk is an adjunct political scientist at the RAND Corporation. He has analyzed such topics as unconventional security threats in Southeast and South Asia; new strategic challenges for the U.S. in Latin America, Africa, and South Asia; evolving trends in national and international terrorism; international organized crime; the transnational spread of disease; and U.S. military links in the Asia-Pacific region. He is a specialist correspondent for Jane's Intelligence Review and associate editor of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. Chalk has regularly testified before the U.S. Senate on issues pertaining to national and international terrorism and is author of numerous publications on various aspects of low-intensity conflict in the contemporary world. Chalk is also a senior instructor at the Postgraduate Naval School in Monterey, California. Before coming to RAND, Chalk was a professor of politics at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, and a fellow in the Strategic and Defense Studies Centre of the Australian National University, Canberra. More