Biological and Chemical Weapons
Biological and Chemical Weapons | The Media Direct U.S. Policy Regarding Biological and Chemical Weapons
Stephen S. Hall is the science editor for the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and author of such biological studies as Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene and A Commotion in the Blood: Life, Death, and the Immune System.
Summary: Science fiction novels, such as Richard Preston’s The Cobra Event, have done much to exacerbate fears over America’s susceptibility to attacks by biological and chemical weapons. President Bill Clinton’s alarmist call to budget hundreds of millions of dollars to safeguard the...
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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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