This article analyzes possible terrorist attacks on the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach using a radiological dispersal device (RDD, also known as a "dirty bomb") to shut down port operations and cause substantial economic and psychological impacts. The analysis is an exploratory investigation of a combination of several risk analysis tools, including scenario generation and pruning, project...

Disruption of E3 ubiquitin ligase activity in immature zebrafish mind bomb mutants leads to a failure in Notch signaling, excessive numbers of neurons, and depletion of neural progenitor cells. This neurogenic phenotype is associated with defects in neural patterning and brain development. Because developmental brain abnormalities are recognized as an important feature of childhood neurological...

an Appropriate Basis for Nuclear Worker Compensation? Wakeford (2003) and Little (2003) wrote in response to our comments about the use of A-bomb survivor studies as a basis for U.S. nuclear worker compensation decisions (Wing and Richardson 2002). Wakeford (2003) disagrees with our statement (Wing and Richardson 2002) that there is discrepancy between childhood cancer risk estimates from in ut...