Diversify, Decentralize To Protect Against Terrorism

"Lesson one: Disperse vulnerabilities - which means breaking up everything from the energy industry to air travel...A nuclear power plant represents an almost unthinkable degree of concentrated vulnerability..A wind farm...represents a challenge that may be beyond the most brilliant terrorist...Another example is air travel, where ever larger aircraft serve ever larger hubs...Small aircraft can't do everything that large aircraft can do, but they don't have to...In America, the obviously underutilized modality for passenger transport is rail."