When word leaked that the Department of Defense had funded a scheme to allow investors to use futures-market analysis to predict the likelihood of terrorist acts or international incidents — and to profit if their predictions were correct — the public reacted with both shock and awe. The $8 million idea, known as the Futures […]
Juliette Kayyem
Juliette N. Kayyem, a former member of the National Commission on Terrorism, is a senior fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and the editor of The First to Arrive: State and Local Responses to Terrorism.