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80 Foreign Aff. 76 (2001)
The Nightmare of Bioterrorism

handle is hein.journals/fora80 and id is 84 raw text is: The Nightmare of Bioterrorism Laurie Garrett TOOLS IN HAND As THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY begins, the following nations possess biological weapons: Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, China, North Korea, Russia, Israel, Taiwan, and possibly Sudan, India, Pakistan, and Kazakhstan. The list cuts across lines of ideology, politics, and geography. In addition, according to intelligence sources in Europe and the United States, militant political groups across the globe are now developing or seeking to purchase biological weapons for terrorist use. Meanwhile, the sophistication of biological weaponry has improved by leaps and bounds. Until 1985, all of the world's biological-weapons makers were stuck with the same list of pathogens and toxins that could kill thousands of enemies and be delivered with missiles or large-scale aerosol systems. Each nation knew the list and stocked antidotes and vaccines. It was a standoff. But biology in the last decade has been what physics was in the 1940s and 195os: a field of exponential discovery. What seemed impossible in 198o was accomplished by 199o and, by 2ooo, had become ho-hum fodder for high school biology classes. By the late 199os, a massive pool of bioengineers, equipped with genetic blueprints to guide their efforts, had emerged. Determining the genetic sequence of a virus, such as Ebola, was no longer much of a feat. In 1998, scientists at the LAURIE GARRETT is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science and medical writer for Newsday. This article is adapted from her new book, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. Copyright © 2ooo by Laurie Garrett. Published by Hyperion. [76]

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