NATO yesterday showed off its new weapons of mass destruction response initiatives during an anthrax response exercise in Prague (see GSN, Nov. 19).

The alliance has begun several WMD defense initiatives, including creating rapid response teams and disease surveillance teams and stocking vaccines in NATO member countries.  Alliance officials said they plan to determine how to integrate the WMD rapid response teams, which will consist of up to 15 members, into the NATO military structure after a year-long series of exercises.

“These are people who have been trained for years to do their jobs,” a NATO official said.  “What’s new is that they are being pulled together to act in a coordinated way” (John Chalmers, Reuters, Nov. 20).

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