Biological and Chemical Weapons
Biological and Chemical Weapons | Local Governments’ Responses to Biological and Chemical Terrorism
Karen Ann Coburn has written several articles of local and national interest for Governing magazine.
Summary: Although local emergency response authorities have often felt illinformed by the federal government regarding the potential dangers of terrorist attacks, in recent years the lines of communication have been better established. In the wake of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing (in which the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was destroyed by convicted terrorist Timothy McVeigh), President Bill Clinton created new protocols outlining how local...
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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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