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Introduces the reader to the notion of stress testing as a way to highlight a system’s weak spots. Crises and disasters reveal, like nothing else, the fracture lines within a society. This chapter introduces five disasters that each provides a major stress test of the United States: the War on Terror, Hurricane Katrina, financial crisis, the Gulf oil spill, and the COVID-19 epidemic.
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Short, J.R. (2021). Introduction to Stress Testing the USA. In: Stress Testing the USA. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65999-8_1
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