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What measures should be taken in order to minimize the risk of a biological weapons attack? This can be directed in two ways: minimizing the risk associated with acquiring these weapons and on the other hand, minimizing the risks of a potential release of these weapons, if acquisition is successful.
Which of the following threats poses the greatest threat to human health and security in the near future and why? The deliberate or accidental release of a biological warfare agent by a state power, the deliberate use of BW agents by nonstate actors in an act of terrorism, or the emergence of a dangerous new form of communicable disease.
What factors are taken into account when a state power decides whether or not to release Biological Weapons on an enemy or population?
Why would the emergence of a new natural and communicable disease be the greatest threat to human health and security in the near-future, when compared to a human attack with bio-weapons?
What difficulties do non-state actors (i.e terrorist groups) face when they attempt to effectively acquire and disseminate biological weapons? Terrorist groups often have limited resources: So would a few difficulties include: lack of sufficient technical and scientific knowledge to effectively produce, weaponize, and disseminate a lethal strain of a virus, along with other operational, and organizational deficiencies?