Featured in this issue: Worst-Case Scenario: Pakistan Falls to the Taliban, By Neil C. Livingstone;
Preparing for the Worst in Cyber Security, By Amit Yoran; The Beslan School Massacre – A Threat with No
Easy Solutions, By Patrick D. Bird & Michael Alswede; Isolation, Quarantine, and the Compression of
Time, By Joseph Cahill; Field Testing or LRN Laboratories Why Not Both?, By Rob Schnepp; License Plate
Readers: Automated Situational Awareness, By Rodrigo (Roddy) Moscoso; A Change in Fashions for the
Well-Suited Responder, By Glen Rudner; Mass Prophylaxis: The Brass Ring of Public-Health Preparedness,
By Bruce Clements; Questions of Preparedness: A Spring of Tragedy for Law Enforcement, By Joseph
Trindal; Massachusetts, California, Montana, and New York, By Adam McLaughlin