Biological and Chemical Weapons
Biological and Chemical Weapons | Decreasing U.S. Intervention Overseas Will Reduce the Threat of Terrorist Attacks
Ivan Eland is the Director of Defense Policy Studies at Washington D.C.’s Cato Institute.
Summary: According to a Department of Defense study there is a strong correlation between U.S. intervention in foreign affairs and the number of terrorist acts against Americans. In the past, such acts typically involved conventional weapons and claimed relatively few lives, and were therefore deemed annoyances rather than catastrophes. However, now that biological weapons are garnering worldwide attention, the government should rightfully fear the possibility...
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- Biological Weapons Are a Serious Threat
- Is the Fear of Biological Terrorism Justified?
- Terrorists Would Be Unlikely to Use Biological or Chemical Weapons
- Countermeasures to Biological and Chemical Terrorism Warrant Government Funding
- The Media Direct U.S. Policy Regarding Biological and Chemical Weapons
- An Attempt to Destroy Chemical Weapons Goes Awry
- Decreasing U.S. Intervention Overseas Will Reduce the Threat of Terrorist Attacks
- The Migration of Russian Biological Weapons Experts Is a Serious Threat
- A Nuclear Arsenal Is Needed to Counter a Biological Weapons Threat
- The Chemical Weapons Convention Is Unenforceable
- Local Governments’ Responses to Biological and Chemical Terrorism
- Unearthing the Truth
- Iraq Still Possesses a Biological and Chemical Arsenal
- The Biological and Chemical Weapons in Iraq’s Arsenal
- The U.S. Supplied Iraq with Biological and Chemical Weapons’ Materials
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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