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Article: More Education Needed on Terrorism. (Readers Forum).(Brief Article)
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- National Defense
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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In a February 2001 National Defense Magazine article (U.S. Homeland Defense Policy Mired in Competing Interests), John Stanton briefly noted the lack of public education in matters of biological terrorism. In fact, the problem spans the gamut of nuclear, chemical and biological (NBC)--weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Stanton quoted Edward Plaugher, Arlington County, Va. Fire Department official, "We just don't have the resources to educate the community."
We are in trouble. Since 1997, the U.S. government spent about $10 billion a year on the Domestic Preparedness for NBC-WMD terrorism, yet, according to Edward Plaugher, the government doesn't have the ...