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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism." National Research Council. 2002. Terrorism: Perspectives from the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10570.
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Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism

LEWIS M. BRANSCOMB (Co-Chair), Center for Science and International Affairs (emeritus), John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

RICHARD D. KLAUSNER (Co-Chair), Case Institute of Health, Science and Technology

JOHN D. BALDESCHWIELER, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena California

BARRY R. BLOOM, School of Public Health, Harvard University

L. PAUL BREMER III, Marsh and McLennan Companies, Inc., Washington, D.C.

WILLIAM F. BRINKMAN, Lucent Technologies (retired), Murray Hill, New Jersey

ASHTON B. CARTER, School of Science and International Affairs and Preventive Defense Project, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

CHARLES B. CURTIS, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington, D.C.

MORTIMER L. DOWNEY III, PBConsult, Washington, D.C.

RICHARD L. GARWIN, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (emeritus), New York, New York

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism." National Research Council. 2002. Terrorism: Perspectives from the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10570.
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PAUL H. GILBERT, Parsons Brinckerhoff International, Inc., Seattle, Washington

M.R.C. GREENWOOD, Office of the Chancellor, University of California, Santa Cruz

MARGARET A. HAMBURG, Biological Programs, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington, D.C.

WILLIAM HAPPER, Department of Physics, Princeton University

JOHN L. HENNESSY, President, Stanford University

JOSHUA LEDERBERG, Sackler Foundation, The Rockefeller University

THOMAS C. SCHELLING, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland

MAXINE F. SINGER, President, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C.

NEIL J. SMELSER, Department of Sociology (emeritus), University of California, Berkeley

PHILIP M. SMITH, McGeary & Smith, Washington, D.C.

P. ROY VAGELOS, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Bedminster, New Jersey

VINCENT VITTO, The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, Massachussetts

GEORGE M. WHITESIDES, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University

R. JAMES WOOLSEY, Booz Allen Hamilton, McLean, Virginia

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism." National Research Council. 2002. Terrorism: Perspectives from the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10570.
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The events and aftermath of September 11, 2001, profoundly changed the course of history of the nation. They also brought the phenomenon known as terrorism to the forefront of the nation's consciousness. As it became thus focused, the limits of scientific understanding of terrorism and the capacity to develop policies to deal with it became even more evident. The objective of this report is to bring behavioral and social science perspectives to bear on the nature, determinants, and domestic responses to contemporary terrorism as a way of making theoretical and practical knowledge more adequate to the task. It also identifies areas of research priorities for the behavioral and social sciences.

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