"Achieving a robust and sustainable national capability to rapidly and successfully meet the immense challenges posed by an incident of catastrophic magnitude will require a unified strategy supported by aggressive leadership, joint collaboration, innovative thinking, significant funding, and national resolve. To that end, this Strategy for Catastrophic Incident Planning (SCIP) establishes a comprehensive and ambitious set of unified goals and objectives, and will provide a baseline against which to identify, validate, align and prioritize necessary capability-building initiatives. There is agreement throughout the emergency management community that the existing plans, policies, procedures, and resources are not fully adequate or appropriate to address the destruction caused by a catastrophic hurricane, an earthquake, or a terrorist attack using a weapon of mass destruction" (FEMA, Strategic Plan, October 10. 2007, p. 4)