on the board of directors of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine, and on the advisory board of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism. Appointed by the Governor of New Jersey to the New Jersey-Israel Commission, he chaired the Commission's committee on Homeland Security. In addition, he coordinated exchanges on terror medicine and domestic security between American and Israeli academics and professionals. Cole appeared on television, and was the author or editor of eleven books. His articles appeared in several academic journals and publications, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Sciences, and Scientific American. Other interviews and presentations of his were posted by the PBS NewsHour. Personal life Cole married Ruth Gerber in 1957. They had three children and remained married until his death. They resided in Ridgewood, New Jersey, during his later years. Cole died on September 18, 2022, at a hospital in Ridgewood. He was 89 years old. Awards and accolades Cole was awarded grants and fellowships by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He received the alumni merit award from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in 2008. He was a fellow of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and board member of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Formerly a board member of Columbia University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Alumni Association, he was featured in the GSAS publication, Superscript. Bibliography Blacks in Power: A Comparative Study of Black and White Elected Officials (1976) Politics and the Restraint of Science (1983) Clouds of Secrecy: The Army's Germ Warfare Tests Over Populated Areas (1988) Element of Risk: The Politics of Radon (1993) The Eleventh Plague: The Politics of Biological and Chemical Warfare (1997) The Anthrax Letters: A Medical Detective Story (2003) Terror: How Israel Has Coped and What America Can Learn (2007) The Anthrax Letters, Revised Edition (2009) Essentials of Terror Medicine (co-editor, 2009) Local Planning for Terror and Disaster: From Bioterrorism to Earthquakes (co-editor, 2012) Chasing the Ghost: Nobelist Fred Reines and the Neutrino (2021) References External links Leonard A. Cole Rutgers Today Superscript NJTV News One on One 1933 births 2022 deaths Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Writers from Paterson, New Jersey American dentists Military personnel from New Jersey University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine alumni Rutgers