The Journal of
Physical Security

R.G. Johnston, Ph.D., CPP
Vulnerability Assessment
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439-4814
USA
phone: 630-252-6168
fax: 630-252-7323
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Current Issue

The Journal of Physical Security Cover
  • IN THIS ISSUE:
  • Editor's Comments pages i-xiii.
  • Paper 1 - J Loughlin, Security Through Transparency: An Open Source Approach to Physical Security, pages 1-5
  • Paper 2 - EC Michaud, The Hobbyist Phenomenon in Physical Security, pages 6-8.
  • Paper 3 - WF Bakr and AA Hamed, Upgrading the Physical Protection System (PPS) To Improve the Response to Radiological Emergencies Involving Malevolent Action, pages 9-16.
  • Paper 4 - RG Johnston, A Model for How to Disclose Physical Security Vulnerabilities, pages 17-35.
  • Paper 5 - J Kanalis, Confidentiality & the Certified Confidentiality Officer: Security Disciplines to Safeguard Sensitive/Critical Business Information, pages 36-39.

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Past issues

Issue 1, Volume 2 (2007) | Abstracts and PDFs

  • Editor's Comments
    R.G. Johnston
  • Paper 1 - "Nuclear Perceptions"
    James David Ballard
  • Paper 2  - "Culture Shock: Securing the Bomb is Hard to Do" 
    James E. Doyle
  • Paper 3  - "The Ineffectiveness of the Correlation Coefficient for Image Comparisons"
    Eugene K. Yen and Roger G. Johnston
  • Paper 4  - "Psychology in the Study of Physical Security"
    Edward George Bitzer and Andrew Hoffman
  • Paper 5  - "Creative Adversarial Vulnerability Assessments"
    Edward George Bitzer and Roger Johnston

Issue 1, Volume 1 (2004) | Abstracts and PDFs

  • Editor's Comments
    R.G. Johnston
  • Paper 1 - "Detecting Nuclear Material in International Container Shipping: Criteria for Secure Systems"
    CISAC Stanford Study Group
  • Paper 2 - "Radiation Litmus Paper"
    D.M. Johns, J.A. D'Alessio, K.S. Sheafe, and B.P. Warner
  • Paper 3 - "Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism Threats for India: Risk Potential and Countermeasures"
    R.M. Basrur and F. Steinhäusler
  • Paper 4 - "Approaches to Quantitative Risk Assessment with Applications to Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials"
    G. Geiger and A. Schaefer
  • Paper 5 - "A Cognitive Model for Exposition of Human Deception and Counterdeception"
    D.R. Lambert