Project Summary: Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. —C. P. Snow This quote by noted British scientist and author C. P. Snow brings to light the fact that technology can have both favorable and adverse effects. On the one hand, it can be used to prevent, protect against, respond to, or recover from a wide variety of hazards or disasters, including terrorist attacks. On the other hand, technology also constitutes a major threat, risk, or vulnerability because it can be used by terrorists to plan or execute attacks. In some cases, it takes technology to fight or beat technology, just as firefighters set backfires to prevent the further spread of wildfires in forested areas. It is important to grasp the applications, consequences, or impacts of technology on actual events in order to assess the potential future applications of technology in homeland security.