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A selection of VAT papers that are available upon request:

• EG Bitzer, PY Chen, and RG Johnston, “Security in Organizations: Expanding the Frontiers of Industrial-Organizational Psychology”, Industrial and Organizational Psychology 29 (in press).
• JS Warner and RG Johnston, “Contact Memory Buttons and Nuclear Safeguards” Journal of Nuclear Materials Management (in press).
• RG Johnston, “Layered Security: Self-Defense or Self-Delusion?”, Security Management (in press).
• RG Johnston, “My Turn: An Only Slightly Cynical Dictionary of Security Terms”, Security, July, 2008.
• RG Johnston, M Bremer Maerli, EG Bitzer, and JD Ballard, “Two Simple Models of Nuclear Transparency”, International Journal of Social Inquiry 1(2), 201-237 (2008),
• RG Johnston, MJ Timmons, and JS Warner, “Protecting Nuclear Safeguards Monitoring Data from Tampering”, Science and Global Security 15(3), 185-209 (2007).
• RG Johnston, “Tamper-Indicating Seals”, American Scientist 94(6), Nov-Dec 2006, pp. 515-523, 
• RG Johnston, “A Model for How to Disclose Physical Security Vulnerabilities” (2006).
• E Bitzer, “Strategies for Cutting Turnover”, Security Management 50(5), 88-94 (May 2006), based on EG Bitzer and RG Johnston, “Turnkey Turnaround Solutions:  Exploiting the Powerful Tools of I/O Psychology”, Los Alamos National Laboratory Report LAUR-05-1130.
• RG Johnston and JS Warner, “The Dr. Who Conundrum: Why Placing Too Much Faith in Technology Leads to Failure”, Security Management 49(9), 112-121 (Sept 2005).
•  EG Bitzer and RG Johnston, “A Taxonomy for Security Assignments”, Journal of Security Administration 26(2), 1-11 (2003/2006).
• RG Johnston, “New Research on Tamper-Indicating Seals”, International Utilities Revenue Protection Association News, 16(1), 17-18 (2006)
• RG Johnston, “An Anti-Counterfeiting Strategy Using Numeric Tokens”, International Journal of Pharmaceutical Medicine 19, 163-171 (2005).
• RG Johnston, JS Warner, ARE Garcia, et al., "Nuclear Safeguards and Security:  We Can Do Better", Paper 1009, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management, September 4-8, 2005, Glasgow, Scotland.
• RG Johnston, “The ‘Anti-Evidence’ Approach to Tamper-Detection”, Packaging, Transport, Storage & Security of Radioactive Material 16(2), 135-143 (2005).
• RG Johnston, “Assessing the Vulnerability of Tamper-Indicting Seals”, Port Technology International 25, 155-157 (2005).
• RG Johnston, “Adversarial Safety Analysis:  Borrowing the Methods of Security Vulnerability Assessments”, Journal of Safety Research 35, 245-248 (2004)
• RG Johnston and ARE Garcia, “Effective Vulnerability Assessments for Physical Devices, Systems, and Programs”, Österreich Militärische Zeitschrift (Austrian Military Journal), Special Edition “Nuclear Material Protection”, February 2003, pp. 51-55 
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• JS Warner and RG Johnston, “GPS Spoofing Countermeasures”, Homeland Security Journal,  December 12, 2003
• RG Johnston and M Bremer Maerli, “International vs. Domestic Nuclear Safeguards: The Need for Clarity in the Debate Over Effectiveness”, Disarmament Diplomacy, issue 69, pp 1-6, February-March 2003
• RG Johnston, ARE Garcia, and AN Pacheco, “Improved Security Via ‘Town Crier’ Monitoring”, Proceedings of Waste Management ’03, Tucson, AZ, February 24-27, 2003
• RG Johnston and JS Warner, “Cargo Tracking and Security”, EyeforTransport, Sept, 2003 
• RG Johnston, ARE Garcia, AN Pacheco, SJ Trujillo, RK Martinez, DD Martinez, & LN Lopez, “Improving Tamper Detection for Hazardous Waste Security”, Proceedings of Waste Man- agement ’03, Tucson, AZ, Feb 24-27, 2003
• A Simple Demonstration that the Global Positioning System (GPS) is Vulnerable to Spoofing”, The Journal of Security Administration 25, 19-28 (2002).
• RG Johnston, ARE Garcia, and AN Pacheco, “The ‘Town Crier’ Approach to Monitoring”, International Journal of Radioactive Material Transport 13(2), 117-126 (2002).
• RG Johnston, ARE Garcia, and AN Pacheco, "Efficacy of Tamper-Indicating Devices", Journal of Homeland Security, April 16, 2002,
• M Bremer Maerli and RG Johnston, “Safeguarding This and Verifying That:  Fuzzy Concepts, Confusing Terminology, and Their Detrimental Effects on Nuclear Husbandry”, Nonproliferation Review 9, 54-82 (Spring 2002)
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• RG Johnston, “Testing Tamper-Indicating Seals”, Security Business Practices 5, 15 (2002).
• RG Johnston, "Cryptography as a Model for Physical Security", Journal of Security Administration  24, 33-43 (2001).
• ER Gerdes, RG Johnston, and JE Doyle, "A Proposed Approach for Monitoring Nuclear Warhead Dismantlement", Science and Global Security 9, 113-141 (2001)
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• RG Johnston, "Tamper-Indicating Seals for Nuclear Disarmament and Hazardous Waste Management", Science and Global Security 9, 93-112 (2001).
• RG Johnston, DD Martinez, and ARE Garcia, "Were Ancient Seals Secure?", Antiquity 75, 299-305 (2001).
• RG Johnston, "Tamper Detection for Safeguards and Treaty Monitoring: Fantasies, Realities, and Potentials", Nonproliferation Review  8, 102-115 (Spring 2001)
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• RG Johnston and ARE Garcia, "An Annotated Taxonomy of Tag and Seal Vulnerabilities", Journal of Nuclear Materials Management 229, 23-30 (2000).
• RG Johnston, "The Real Deal on Seals", Security Management 41, 93-100 (1997).
• RG Johnston and ARE Garcia, "Simple, Low-Cost Ways to Dramatically Improve the Security of Tags and Seals", Proceedings of the IAEA Symposium on International Safeguards, Vienna, Austria, October 13-17, 1997.
• RG Johnston and ARE Garcia, "Vulnerability Assessment of Security Seals", Journal of Security Administration 20, 15-27 (1997).
• RG Johnston, "Effective Vulnerability Assessment of Tamper-Indicating Seals", Journal of Testing and Evaluation 25, 451-455 (1997).
• RG Johnston, ARE Garcia, and WK Grace, “Vulnerability Assessment of Passive Tamper-Indicating Seals”, Journal of Nuclear Materials Management 224, 24-29 (1995).

For copies of the VAT papers and presentations on a wide variety of physical security issues (tags, seals, product counterfeiting, vulnerability assessments, RFIDs, GPS, nuclear safeguards), contact Roger Johnston: