More Security Against the Rising Risk of Bioterrorism
“One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” (Egendorf 12-13). These people, be them terrorist or freedom fighters, have, for many years, killed innocent men, women, and children for no reason. In recent years, biological weapons have taken terrorism to a whole new level. Not only can terrorists accomplish their deeds with even more stealth, but they can also kill thousands and even millions cheaply and painfully. Bioterrorism has been called a disease of modern society, a condition of life, an art, an unsurpassed weapon of psychological warfare, and an antithesis of democracy and the democratic spirit (Hyde & Forsyth). Although bioterrorism is thought to be difficult to accomplish on a large scale, the national bioterrorism security should be heightened due to the recent cases of anthrax tainted mail and the leakage of information, technology of bioweapons, or weapons enhanced by disease, to rogue states, due to the collapse of the Soviet Union and its bio-weapon program. Terrorists have relatively easy access to a range of sophisticated, “off the shelf” weapons technology that can be readily adapted to their operational needs (Hoffman). In September 1984, a non-state sponsored terrorist cult called the Rajneeshee fro
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