Bioterrorism: Homeland Defense Symposium: The Next Steps

Executive Summary

Maurice Eisenstein, Brian Houghton

Expert InsightsPublished 2000

For many years, the United States has been concerned about domestic acts of terrorism using conventional weapons and explosives. More recently, these concerns have grown to include other weapons of mass destruction (WMD), particularly use by terrorists of chemical and biological weapons. Recent independent assessments have concluded that as a nation we are ill-prepared to deal with such events. This Symposium, focused on the Los Angeles area, was held to help remedy that situation by seeking to identify the elements of an integrated homeland defense against Bioterrorism, identifying critical gaps in current federal, state, and local government policies, programs, and capabilities, and offering suggestions on how a relatively cost-effective homeland defense program might be achieved.

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  • Copyright: RAND Corporation
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  • Year: 2000
  • Pages: 38
  • Document Number: CF-155/1

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Eisenstein, Maurice and Brian Houghton, Bioterrorism: Homeland Defense Symposium: The Next Steps : Executive Summary. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2000. https://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF155z1.html.
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