Biological and Chemical Weapons
Biological and Chemical Weapons | A Nuclear Arsenal Is Needed to Counter a Biological Weapons Threat
David C. Gompert is vice president of the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California, where he runs the National Security Research Division. He served as senior director for Europe and Eurasia on the National Security Council staff during the Bush administration. This article is an expansion of a paper written for the Strategic Forum of the National Defense University. It is based on ideas he developed with former Rand colleagues, Dean Wilkening and Kenneth Watman.
Summary: During the Cold War a nuclear arsenal was a means to deter the Soviet Union...
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Table of Contents
- 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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