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THE LONDON ATTACKS — PREPAREDNESS Previous Volume 353:543-545 August 11, 2005 Number 6 Next

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Although Britain is no stranger to terrorist attacks, the pattern of activity has changed in recent years. Irish bombers first attacked London in 1867, but bombings peaked between 1969 and 2000, with 1972 alone seeing 1500 separate incidents — and 5005 casualties — in the United Kingdom. With the recent accessibility of information over the Internet have come new risks: in 1999, a single person used such information to construct and deploy three devices in central London, killing 3 people and injuring more than 120. The London attacks of July 7, 2005, however, represent a shift to a new scale . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Ryan is a professor of conflict recovery at University College London and a professor of surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Md. Dr. Montgomery is a consultant in intensive care at University College Hospitals, London.

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