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Bipartisan Report Finds U.S. Vulnerable to Bioterrorism Attack

 
Seven years after the 2001 anthrax attacks, a congressionally ordered study finds a growing threat of biological terrorism and calls for aggressive defenses on par with those used to prevent a terrorist nuclear detonation. (link)

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