The Washington Post has this article on the BioShield program. It’s a bit of a scorecard on the four-year old program, and the score doesn’t look good for homeland security. Let’s take a look, agent by agent. Old Anthrax Treatment: “As the result of an effort that began before BioShield, there are enough antibiotics in […]
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And who wouldn’t love a seven-foot Amazonian woman leading the Female Furies to save the day? Oh, we’re not talking about the DC comics book character “Big BARDA”? It’s also the name of a new Department of Health and Human Service’s (DHHS) effort? Well, we can talk about that, too. Last Thursday, the Senate approved […]
North Korea’s newly-tested nuke is bad news, for sure. But the bigger worry, says Popular Mechanics is the “huge arsenal of mass casualty weapons” that Kim & Co. have been assembling for 45 years: biological and chemical arms. While it would be foolish not to be gravely concerned about North Korea’s purported development of an […]
This story about “Project BioShield,” the government’s botched effort to build up a vaccine supply against anthrax and other bioterror threats, is a nice wrap-up of one of the administration’s most troubled homeland security efforts (and that’s saying a lot). But the story also kind of misses, or at least sidesteps, the point. Since it […]
Okay, just when you thought that the whole Curveball-Iraqi biological weapons story couldn’t get any weirder, it does. Milton Leitenberg of the Center for International Security Studies has provided me with the exclusive third (and last) part of the story behind the story of the alleged Iraqi mobile biological warfare labs. In Part 1, he […]
