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Volume 27 Number 3
Fall 2008
Special Issue on ISTAS `07

Sailing to Where There Be Dragons

Risk, Vulnerability, Uncertainty, Technology and Society
Guest Editor: David Hassenzahl

DEPARTMENTS

3 ISTAS `09 – Call for Papers

4 President’s Message

5 In Memorium 

6 Editorial

7 Letter

8 Book Reviews

56 ISTAS'09 Call for Papers

10 Guest Editor’s Introduction

SPECIAL ISSUE FEATURES

13 Rationalizing the Cold War Home Front*
Leisl A. Carr

19 Risk Assessment: Perchlorate as a National Security Threat*
Chad M. Briggs

25 From Calamity Mesa to Boyertown, PA: Risk, Radon, and Regulation in Cold War America*
Ellen Bales

32 Maintenance and Transformation in the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex*
Benjamin Sims and Christopher Henke

39 Geographic Factors Complicating Hazard Responses on Small Islands*
William James Smith, Jr.

*Refereed articles.
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