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Military brass and scholars this May will meet to discuss a frightening near-future scenario, filled with loose nukes, bioweapons and untraceable terrorists.
This year’s symposium will examine the nation’s preparedness to prevent or manage four WMD crises that could transform U.S. security:
* Collapse of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime, in which a number of current, unresolved nuclear proliferation challenges threaten to unleash a sudden and destabilizing wave of proliferation;
* Failure of a WMD-Armed State, creating unprecedented risks that radical actors will obtain WMD and unprecedented challenges for prevention;
* A Biological Terror Campaign, in which terrorists employ deadly biological pathogens to strike at multiple cities; and
* A Nuclear Detonation in a U.S. City, delivered covertly and leaving great uncertainty about who did it, will it happen again, and how we should respond.
via Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction – National Defense University.
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Thanks Sydney! I made those fixes you suggested… Very much obliged