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Bookmark or Share- Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction - RAND CorporationAlthough the conventional wisdom previously held that terrorists were more interested in publicity than in killing, recent terrorist attacks — such as the 1995 nerve gas attack in a Tokyo subway and the bombing of a federal government office building in Oklahoma City — have either crossed into the domain of use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or involved the deliberate infliction of ...
- Detecting Biological Threats - Homeland SecurityJune 9, 2020. I am pleased to present the following report, “Detecting Future Biological Threats,” which has been prepared by the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office (CWMD). This document has been compiled pursuant to language in Senate Report 116-125, which accompanies the Fiscal Year 2020 Department of Homeland Security ...
- Weapons of Mass Destruction | RANDA weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a weapon--be it nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological, or explosive--that can kill or injure large numbers of people or greatly damage the infrastructure of a country or region. RAND provides policymakers with objective guidance and recommendations to improve WMD preparedness, detection, and response, as well as international collaboration to counter ...
- Weapons of Mass Destruction - Homeland SecurityWeapons of Mass Destruction. The United States faces a rising danger from terrorists and rogue states seeking to use weapons of mass destruction. A weapon of mass destruction is a nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological, or other device that is intended to harm a large number of people. The Department of Homeland Security works every day to ...
- DHS Marks Fifth Anniversary of the Countering Weapons of Mass ...Additionally, as part of the President’s Executive Order on AI signed in October 2023, President Biden tasked CWMD with helping to evaluate and mitigate the potential for AI to be used to develop WMDs, such as through AI-enabled misuse of synthetic nucleic acids to create biological weapons. The President directed the CWMD Office to evaluate ...
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