Sam Nunn Discusses Need for New Public-Private Partnership to Reduce the Threat of Bioterrorism
About
NTI Co-Chairman Sam Nunn says that active leadership of the scientific community is essential to develop norms of scientific behavior that will secure dangerous biological materials without suffocating scientific research.
Understanding
the Terrorism Threat
WMD terrorism is a threat to global security. In 2010 testimony, the U.S. director of national intelligence said that dozens of identified domestic and international terrorists and terrorist groups have expressed intent to obtain and use WMD in future acts of terrorism.
Global Security Newswire
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Report Ranks Cities' Ability to Distribute Countermeasures Following Bioterror Attack
Dec. 15, 2011
In the event of a large-scale biological weapons attack, a number of major U.S. population centers have been judged insufficiently prepared to take shipment of and disseminate medical countermeasures from the federal government's Strategic National Stockpile, according to a December analysis by Forbes magazine.
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United States Reaffirms Preventive War Policy
March 16, 2006
WASHINGTON — In a national security document released yesterday, the Bush administration reasserted its right to use military force against any country believed to threaten the United States, even if no attack is imminent (see GSN, Sept. 20, 2002).
