STPP Seminar on Living with Terrorism: Can Science and Technology Make Us Safer?

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Branscomb was co-chair with Rick Klausner of the National Academies' project on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism. The committee of 24, supported by panels of 96 other experts published Making the Nation Safer on August 2, after presenting the contents to the House and Senate and the Office of Homeland Security and Office of Science and Technology Policy during the week of June 25.  The report contains 134 recommendations for research and for technology deployment, with the goal of making the terrorists' goals more difficult. The report has also influenced the legislation, now pending in the Senate and passed in the House, to create a Department of Homeland Security.  The lecture will summarize the Academies' report, including a key finding that complex systems analysis and management will be critical to success in the new department.