Tara O'Toole, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies, proposes that the United States should create scholarship programs and research grants to attract the ?best and brightest? minds to the biological defense field so that the country will be better prepared to handle any bioterrorism attacks.
The next National Intelligence Estimate on missile proliferation is expected to include more information about threats posed by cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles, a top CIA official told a Senate subcommittee yesterday. Senators expressed concern that both types of vehicles could deliver weapons of mass destruction.
Philip Coyle, a former Clinton administration defense official, argued against plans for boost-phase missile defense on the grounds that it would be ineffective against missiles from Russia, China, or with China, Russia or other large countries.
Handheld radiation detectors used to detect a nuclear bomb smuggled through a U.S. seaport might not be enough, and an attack with weapons of mass destruction at any U.S. port would wreak havoc on global commerce by halting shipping for four months, senior transportation officials told a Senate subcommittee yesterday.
The Bush administration no longer supports a U.S. commitment to refrain from using nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states, John Bolton, undersecretary of state for arms control and nonproliferation.
After months of criticism that they do not work well together, the CIA and FBI have begun jointly developing a new supercomputer system designed to improve their ability to both cull and share information.
The unprecedented $6 billion that U.S. President George W. Bush wants to pump into bioterrorism protection in fiscal 2003 indicates how ill prepared the nation’s health system is to handle any biological attacks, health care officials said today.
After years of acknowledging its Global Positioning System assets are vulnerable, the United States is moving to correct weaknesses in the system, which would be heavily relied upon by first responders in the advent of a weapons of mass destruction attack.