OBJECTIVES To describe the rehabilitation outcomes of terror victims with multiple traumas, and to compare those outcomes with those of patients with nonterror-related multiple traumas treated in the same rehabilitation facility over the same time period. DESIGN Retrospective chart reviews. SETTING Rehabilitation department in a university hospital in Jerusalem, Israel. PARTICIPANTS Betwe...

The potential for bioterrorism has increased within the last 10 years; however, there are mixed arguments among critics as to how serious the president and Congress view this threat. The first question the intelligence community needs to ask is “Is the United States prepared for a biological attack?” Three areas need to be examined: the historical background of biological attacks, types of biow...

For some years, experts and government officials have warned of cyber-terrorism as a looming threat to national security. However, if we define cyber-terror as an attack or series of attacks that is carried out by terrorists, that instills fear by effects that are destructive or disruptive, and that has a political, religious, or ideological motivation, then none of the disruptive cyber-inciden...

Abstract-After the airplane attacks of September 11, 2001, in the United States, many Americans drove instead of flying, to avoid the risk of terrorism. As a result, there were extra car accidents in which many people died. This study tested whether a similar effect occurred in Spain after the train bombings of March 11, 2004, in Madrid. Data on train travel, highway traffic, and fatal highway ...

"Pentagon Prepares a Futures Market on Terror Attacks" blared the headline in the New York Times above an article on the Pentagon's "policy analysis market" (PAM) project. The Pentagon intended to employ a "virtual stock market" — for the aggregation of information and derivation of forecasts — to help predict foreign-policy events such as a coup d'état in a particular country or terrorist atta...

Suicide bombings are the leading cause of death from terrorism in Israel. Counterterror tactics, such as the targeted killings or preemptive arrests of terror leaders or suspects, are meant to prevent such attacks. To investigate whether these tactics are successful, we estimated via maximum likelihood a family of shot-noise models from monthly data covering 2001 through 2003 to see whether we ...

September 11(th) events taught us, members of the medical community, that we need to prepared for the worst. Nuclear terror is no longer science fiction. Radiological weapons of mass terror come in three flavors: The first one is nuclear. Since 1992, there have been six known cases of highly enriched uranium or plutonium being intercepted by authorities as it passed in or out of the former Sovi...