The challenge of dual-use biotechnology in the 21st century has led the scientific community to the conclusion that greater education of life scientists is needed regarding the biological weapons threat. While education is undoubtedly important, when looking at the analogous situation with the...

The EURO II Congress at Stockholm contained a set of Invited Papers. The set included a group that appeared to be attempting a major review of the role of Operational Research (OR). We try here to give a short summary and a representative selection of extracts from these papers. This is done...