How Prepared Are You if Disaster Strikes?

by | Aug 6, 2008


The Wednesday quiz is back*

Tara Parker-Pope, the health guru at the New York Times has created a quiz  based on the brilliant book The Unthinkable by Amanda Ripley (it should have been on the Conservatives reading list).

Take the quiz

* This is not strictly true.

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  • Charlie Edwards

    Charlie Edwards is Director of National Security and Resilience Studies at the Royal United Services Institute. Prior to RUSI he was a Research Leader at the RAND Corporation focusing on Defence and Security where he conducted research and analysis on a broad range of subject areas including: the evaluation and implementation of counter-violent extremism programmes in Europe and Africa, UK cyber strategy, European emergency management, and the role of the internet in the process of radicalisation. He has undertaken fieldwork in Iraq, Somalia, and the wider Horn of Africa region.

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