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John Parachini, "Putting WMD Terrorism into Perspective," Washington Quarterly, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Autumn 2003 (twq.com)
Policy makers, scientists, and bureaucrats are now searching for ways to protect the United States from an attack using weapons of mass destruction. These WMD typically include chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons (CBRN). While he doesn't dismiss the threat that al-Qaeda or another terrorist group might use WMDs, John Parachini, an analyst at the RAND Corporation, suggests that the protectors of America's homeland may be expending too many resources in their effort to track such terror weapons. "The historical record," ...