Three influential risk foundation papers from the 80s and 90s: Are they still state-of-the-art?

Three of the most influential scientific works in the risk field, at least in the engineering environment, are Stan Kaplan and John Garrick's paper from 1981 on risk quantification, George Apostolakis’ paper on probability from 1990, and Elisabeth Paté-Cornell's paper on uncertainty levels in risk assessments from 1996. The present article reviews and discusses these works, the aim being to acknowledge their important contributions to risk...