Issue Brief

Richard Pilch, M.D., "Smallpox: Threat, Vaccine, and U.S. Policy," Center for Nonproliferation Studies, January 2003.

Michael Barletta, "Biosecurity Measures for Preventing Bioterrorism," Center for Nonproliferation Studies, November 27, 2002.

Kristin Thompson, "Legislative Response to Potential Bioterrorist Threat," Center for Nonproliferation Studies, July 12, 2002.

Laura Snyder and Jason Pate, "Tracking Anthrax Hoaxes and Attacks," Center for Nonproliferation Studies, May 20, 2002.

Gary A. Ackerman and Jeffrey M. Bale, "Al-Qaida and Weapons of Mass Destruction," Center for Nonproliferation Studies, December 31, 2002.

Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, "Analysis of the Anthrax Attacks," Federation of American Scientists, September 22, 2002.

Amy Smithson and Leslie-Anne Levy, "Ataxia: The Chemical and Biological Terrorism Threat and the US Response," Stimson Center Report No. 35 (October 2000).

Jean Pascal Zanders, "Assessing the Risks of Chemical and Biological Weapons Proliferation to Terrorists," The Nonproliferation Review 6 (Fall 1999), pp. 17-34.

Ehud Sprinzak, "The Great Superterrorism Scare,"
Foreign Policy (Fall 1998), pp. 110-124.

Bruce Hoffman, "Terrorism and WMD: Some Preliminary Hypotheses," The Nonproliferation Review 4 (Spring-Summer 1997), pp. 45-53.

2000 WMD Terrorism Chronology: Incidents Involving Sub-National Actors and Chemical, Biological, Radiological, or Nuclear Materials,
Center for Nonproliferation Studies (April 2001).

Chronology of Aum Shinrikyo's CBW Activities,
Center for Nonproliferation Studies (March 2001).

Resource Page for Agricultural Terrorism,
Center for Nonproliferation Studies (September 2000).

Organizational Chart of US Terrorism Response,
Center for Nonproliferation Studies (July 2000).

Jason Pate, "Better Plan Needed to Curb Epidemics,"
Newsday, November 29, 2000, p. A43.

Jonathan B. Tucker and Amy Sands, "An Unlikely Threat," The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Vol. 55 (July/August 1999), pp. 46-52.

Ehud Sprinzak, "What Is The Real Threat, WMD or Car Bombs? Terrorism, Real and Imagined," Washington Post, August 19, 1998, p. A21.

Jessica Stern, "Taking the Terror Out of Bioterrorism," New York Times, April 8, 1998.

U.S. General Accounting Office, Combating Terrorism: Comments on Counterterrorism Leadership and National Strategy, testimony document no. [GAO-01-556T], March 27, 2001.

Assessing the Threat, First Annual Report to the President and the Congress, Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction, (Gilmore Commission Report), December 15, 1999.

Combating Terrorism: Need for Comprehensive Threat and Risk Assessments of Chemical and Biological Attacks, report to U.S. General Accounting Office [NSIAD-99-163] (September 1999).

U.S. House Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs and International Relations, Combating Terrorism: Federal Response to a Biological Weapons Attack,
July 23, 2001.

U.S. House Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management, Testimony of James Clapper, Jr.,
April 24, 2001.

U.S. House Committee on Government Reform, Transportation and Infrastructure, The Honorable Wayne T. Gilchrest Joint Hearing Testimony,
April 24, 2001.

U.S. House Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs and International Relations, Combating Terrorism: In Search of a National Strategy, March 27, 2001.

U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, Veteran Affairs, and International Relations, Combating Terrorism: Assessing Threats, Risk Management, and Establishing Priorities by John Parachini,
July 26, 2000.

U.S. General Accounting Office, Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Emergency Management, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure,
Combating Terrorism: Issues in Managing Counterterrorist Programs by Norman J. Rabkin,
April 6, 2000.

U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, Veteran Affairs, and International Relations, Assessing the Threat of Bioterrorism by Ray Zilinskas, October 20, 1999.

Center for Nonproliferation Studies, WMD Terrorism and Usama bin Laden, March 7, 2001.

Jonathan B. Tucker, ed., Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000).

Jessica Stern, The Ultimate Terrorists (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000).

National Research Council, Chemical and Biological Terrorism: Research and Development to Improve Civilian Medical Response (National Research Council, National Academy Press, 2000).

Bruce Hoffman, Inside Terrorism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999).

Ian O. Lesser, et al., Countering the New Terrorism
(Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 1999).

Simon Reeve, The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism, (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999).

Richard A. Falkenrath, et al., America's Achilles' Heel: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998).