Objective: Ensure the audience enjoys the panel. Guide the audience in an exercise in terror – the 34^th D’harma.

Premise: Terror is a function of three factors

• The object of terror must be plausible (this is totally subjective)
• The object of terror must be able to affect your interests
• The object of terror must be difficult to count (this can be because of short notice or because the object is inherently difficult to counter)

A potpourri of things that scare the heck out of Rich Staats

Today:

• Commercial ship based attack …
• Plant based bio-terrorism
• Tactical nuclear weapons
• Radiological threats
• Mixed Modes
• Industrial sabotage

All Too Near Future:

• Bio-tailored
• Nano-technology
• Quantum based computing