Skating on Stilts: Why We Aren't Stopping Tomorrow's Terrorism

by Stewart A. Baker

Book Overview

Stewart A. Baker examines the technologies we love-jet travel, computer networks, and biotech-and finds that they are likely to empower new forms of terrorism unless we change our current course a few degrees and overcome resistance to change from business, foreign governments, and privacy advocates. He draws on his Homeland Security experience to show how that was done in the case of jet travel and border security but concludes that heading off...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817911545
• ISBN13: 9780817911546
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.0"