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15 Discussion of Biology and Agriculture Terrorist Threats
15 Discussion of Biology and Agriculture Terrorist Threats
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In the United States there have been one or two such cases. In 2003, a supermarket worker was caught introducing insecticides containing nicotine into beef.
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The economic damage will be great regardless of the source of the attack, and it will be difficult to trace the source of the attack. In agricultural terrorism we should be able to use even existing technologies such as satellite imagery and aerial imagery, and even proper monitoring by the concerned agricultural departments, to notice early enough that there is a problem in a particular area and react quickly.
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A theme for the kind of collaboration that we would want to see between India and the United States would be, ambitiously, how one makes the world safer. Pollack agreed that the examples provided by the presenters offer fertile ground for discussion, but he warned that we are dealing both literally and figuratively with a very different species of threat, something for which we are not well organized collectively to counteract.
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funds, but is also supported by the Indian government through soft loans and research and development money from agencies such as the New Millennium Initiative of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) , the Technology Development Board, and the World Bank fund through ICICI.64 Private companies have already transcended national boundaries, and his company has U.S.
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Santhanam's third comment referred to Project BioWatch, which was mentioned by Christopher Davis. His view was that the thief has to be halted before reaching the intended target, and therefore international cooperation of a very high order is required to keep this dangerous material from getting into the atmosphere of a small town in the United States.
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He knew of no one who had a good idea on how to solve the political impasse; there is a basic unwillingness of countries to allow teams from abroad to walk in and inspect their facilities. Santhanam then suggested that if the United States felt the need for a new nuclear materials proliferation security initiative (PSI)
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Bush administration who were highly resistant to legal mechanisms of various kinds, particularly on a multilateral basis, and preferred informally articulated arrangements. In Gottemoeller's view, they have realized that the PSI needs some legal underpinnings, and they are looking at drug interdiction as one model; furthermore, there are already legal arrangements in place, in the context of the International Maritime Organization, for interdiction-related issues.
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