Terrorist Attacks to Essential Services, Infrastructures and Facilities in G7 Countries During the Period 2000-2020

Starting from the terrorist events recorded in the Global Terrorism Database (GTD), a very detailed and original analysis has been performed on the evolution, starting from the attach to the Twin Towers in New York in 2001, over the last 21 years of terrorist attacks on specific targets related to critical infrastructures, essential services and facilities.Specifically, a set of targets extracted from the GTD referred to in the paper as ESIF (Essential Services, Infrastructures and Facilities) macro-target has been selected to carry out an original focus on terrorist events perpetrated in G7 countries (USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan).This ESIF macro-target typically contains most of a country's strategic industrial assets, infrastructure and services.The hereby analysis has been conducted in a timely manner for the period 2000-2020, in order to carry out a comparison of the different situations recorded in the most developed world countries, to intercept possible trends, also verifying the type of weapon used for the attacks, then focusing the analysis on CBREI (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Explosive and Incendiary) attacks, which constitute the most destructive and impactful terrorist attacks found in the GTD.