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Cole, Leonard Aaron was born on September 1, 1933 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. Son of Morris and Rebecca (Harelick) Cohen.
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No country has experienced more acts of terrorism over a prolonged period than Israel. The frequency of attacks has propelled Israel toward innovative methods to address the threat. Indeed, treating so many victims of physical and psychological trauma has given rise to the new field of terror medicine. In a gripping narrative, terrorist expert Leonard A. Cole describes how different segments of Israeli society have coped with terrorism―survivors of attacks, families of victims, emergency responders, doctors and nurses, and, in the end, the general population. He also interviews Palestinians, including imprisoned handlers of suicide bombers, who endorse or deplore suicide bombings. He concludes that the Israeli experience with preparedness and coping offers valuable lessons for the United States.
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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 vulnerability to biological weapons. Many civilians have suffered illness, even death, as a consequence.
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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. It was the doctors and public health officials who solved this medical mystery. Stevens was the first fatal victim of bioterrorism in America. The events of September 11th and the anthrax attacks that followed only three weeks later were horrifying. Many of us felt we were living in a world gone mad. Already shaken by the images of jetliners deliberately flown into the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center, we were soon scared to open our mail. No longer could we look forward to birthday wishes or holiday postcards. We couldn’t even safely face the delivery of our monthly bills. We had now become literally afraid of the microbial menace that could be lurking in our mailboxes. This time terror had struck close to homeâ€"to everyone’s home. But behind the panic and the politics was a key line of defense. While the police and FBI frantically investigated a crime, there were other professionals at work, conducting their own painstaking inquiry â€" medical and scientific detectives hot on the trail of deadly organisms deliberately set loose in the postal system. Modern heroes in a quickly changing world, the public health officials, physicians, researchers, and scientists who staff our hospitals, clinics, and laboratories will be the first responders on the scene of any future biowarfare event. Conducting his own detective work, bioterrorism expert Leonard Cole has composed a series of fascinating stories that get to the heart of all the noisy sound bytes and hysterical headlines. Cole is the only person outside law enforcement to have interviewed every one of the surviving inhalation-anthrax victims, along with the relatives, friends, and associates of those who died, as well as the public health officials, scientists, researchers, hospital workers, and treating physicians â€" indeed, anyone who has something of value to add to the story. Speaking through their voices, the narrative reflects the tension and emotions stirred by the events from the fall of 2001. Fast paced and riveting, this minute-by-minute chronicle of the anthrax attacks recounts more than a history of recent current events, it uncovers the untold and perhaps even more important story of how scientists, doctors, and researchers perform life-saving work under intense pressure and public scrutiny. The Anthrax Letters amply demonstrates how vulnerable America and the world really were in 2001. It also shows quite clearly how scientific research promises to strengthen our ability to address the challenges we must meet in the future.
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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 catastrophe. Yet the danger of radon--an invisible, odorless gas that could seemingly attack any home and afflict its residents with a deadly cancer--struck home in the 1980s when whole neighborhoods were deemed unsafe and homeowners were forced to relocate, often at great expense. But how much of a threat does radon really pose to Americans? Is the government's aggressive policy toward this "silent killer" warranted? Indeed, is there a legitimate threat at all? These are the important questions Leonard A. Cole asks in this provocative and fascinating new book, and his answers are ones that all homeowners will want to understand. In clear, non-technical language, Cole dispels many of the myths surrounding radon as he makes recommendations for a coherent, reasonable environmental policy toward what is, certainly, a dangerous gas. But at what levels does radon become a health problem? From all the alarmist headlines ("Major Radon Peril Is Declared By U.S." screamed the New York Times in 1988), average Americans would never know that the threat of radon is much debated, among scientists as well as among government officials. They would never know that numerous European countries--with advanced environmental policies--see the radon levels found in homes and apartments as much less of a danger than we do. And they would never know that not even a single lung cancer death can be directly attributed to a radon-contaminated environment. As he carefully traces the development of the U.S.indoor radon policy, Cole illuminates the many scientific uncertainties that lie behind it, and challenges EPA's risk-cost assessment of radon levels. He shows, too, that no epidemiological study has confirmed that homeowners are at great risk, and exposes those who stand to gain from the policy decisions made in Washington. Since it is not caused by any industry, radon has been a politically convenient issue. Under the Reagan administration, for example, an aggressive radon policy proved an easy way to challenge the popular perception of an anti-environmental president. In the end, Cole convincingly argues for less strict radon regulations, and maintains that the average citizen must be involved in the decision-making process, and must be allowed to exercise her own informed judgment. Thoughtful and timely, Element of Risk illuminates one of the most important public policy issues of our time. It is a book homeowners and taxpayers, scientists and policymakers, will find essential reading.
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Cole, Leonard Aaron was born on September 1, 1933 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. Son of Morris and Rebecca (Harelick) Cohen.
Student, Indiana U., 1951-1953; Doctor of Dental Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, 1957; Bachelor with highest honors in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1961; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1965; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1970.
He is adjunct professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark, New Jersey, and of emergency medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, where he is Director of the Program on Terror Medicine and Security of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Center for BioDefense. Trained in both the health sciences and public policy, Cole has testified before congressional committees and made invited presentations to the United States. Department of Energy, United States. Department of Defense, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Office of Technology Assessment. He is on the Advisory Board of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism.
Appointed by the Governor of New Jersey to the New Jersey-Israel Commission, he has coordinated exchanges on terror medicine and domestic security between American and Israeli academics and professionals.
Cole has appeared frequently on network and public television and is the author or editor of ten books His articles have appeared in numerous professional journals as well as general publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, and The Sciences.
Cole received a Bachelor of Arts with highest honors from the University of California, Berkeley and a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. He also holds an Master of Arts Cole was national chairman of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs during 2000-2002.
He was a featured commentator in Avoiding Armageddon (2003), a Public Broadcasting Service documentary on biological and chemical warfare.
His 2003 book The Anthrax Letters: A Medical Detective Story was named a 2004 Honor Book by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. Other recent books include and Local Planning for Terror and Disaster: From Bioterrorism to Earthquakes (2012). He was featured in a 2008 television program on anthrax entitled "Airborne Attack", part of the Mega Disasters series on the History Channel.
He served as chair of the Birthright Israel Committee of the Jewish Federations of North America during 2006-2013.
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And Doctor of Philosophy in political science from Columbia University. Other recent interviews and presentations have been posted by the Public Broadcasting Service NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, FrontPage magazine, and Eye on.
President United Jewish Appeal Federation Northern New Jersey, 2004—2005. Chairman Jewish Community relations Council Northern New Jersey, 1986—1989. President Glen Rock Human Relations Council, 1969—1970.
Board directors Jewish Council for Public Affairs, since 1987, vice chair, 1991—1999, chair, 2000—2002. Board directors Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Alumni, since 1999. Member community advisory committee Valley Hospital Cancer Center, since 2000.
Fellow Phi Beta Kappa Society. Member American Dental Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Political Science Association.
Married Ruth L. Gerber, July 7, 1957. Children: Wendy Marcia, Philip Arthur, William Edward.
