James M. Talent: “the biggest enemy I think we confront in this is inertia, and to defeat inertia, it takes tremendous leadership and…”

My understanding of the science--and I will certainly invite Dr. Cairns and the deputy commissioner to weigh in here--is that probably, of the three, the weaponizing it would be the most difficult but, nevertheless, within the capability…

The threat of a bio-attack is, in my judgment, one of the greatest and gravest.

We will never remove nuclear weapons from the category of WMD given the nature of such an attack, but may have the opportunity to do so with bio-weapons.

To those who still do not recognize the threat, let me quote from the report of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction.