Leonard R Cole

Element of Risk: The Politics of Radon

Radiation, radioactivity, radon: these are words that, since Hiroshima, the Cold War, and Three Mile Island, have conjured fear and fascination for many Americans. The threat of nuclear war, however, was always abstract at best, and the possibility of a meltdown was seen primarily as a localized cat...

The Anthrax Letters: A Bioterrorism Expert Investigates the Attack That Shocked America

At 2:00am on October 2, 2001, Robert Stevens entered a hospital emergency room. Feverish, nauseated, and barely conscious, no one knew what was making him sick. Three days later he was dead. Stevens was the first fatal victim of bioterrorism in America. Bioterrorism expert Leonard Cole has written t...

The Eleventh Plague: The Politics of Biological and Chemical Warfare

This book is a scientific and political primer on a grim subject: biological and chemical warfare. The Eleventh Plague describes what biological and chemical weapons are, and what their effects can be; how they have been developed and tested; and what treaties and political strategies, if any, can l...

Clouds of Secrecy: The Army's Germ Warfare Tests Over Populated Areas

In the 1970s Americans learned for the first time that they had been used for decades as unsuspecting guinea pigs in a series of astonishing experiments conducted by the US Army. Military researchers had been secretly spraying clouds of bacteria over populated areas in order to study America's vulne...

Cost Analysis and Control in Banks

Element of Risk: The Politics of Radon

Terror: How Israel Has Coped and What America Can Learn

Anthrax Letters: A Medical Detective Story

Blacks in Power: A Comparative Study of Black and White Elected Officials

The Eleventh Plague: The Politics of Biological and Chemical Warfare

The Eleventh Plague : The Politics of Biological and Chemical Warfare

Eleventh Plague: The Politics of Biological and Chemical Warfare

Leard A. Cole

Leonard Cole, an expert on bioterrorism and terror medicine, is an adjunct professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark, New Jersey, ...