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Biodefense crossing the line

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Milton Leitenberg ,
James Leonard  and
Richard Spertzel
Milton Leitenberg
Affiliation:
Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD mleitenb@umd.edu
James Leonard
Affiliation:
Head of the United States Delegation to the Biological Weapons Convention Negotiations, 1972
Richard Spertzel
Affiliation:
USAMRIID and United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), 1994-1998
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Last February, on Monday the ninth, Lieutenant Colonel George W. Korch, Jr, Ph.D., United States Army, speaking in his capacity as Deputy Director of the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC), Fort Detrick, Maryland, addressed the 2004 Department of Defense Pest Management Workshop, meeting in Florida at the Jacksonville Naval Air Station. He spoke in the Main Ballroom of the River Cove Officers' Club. As of this writing the workshop's full schedule1 still shows a hypertext link to his remarks, but the link is no longer active. While it was active, as late as April, a copy of his remarks, presented as computer slides, could be downloaded to any computer, anywhere. It can still be found, unofficially.2

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Guest Commentary
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , September 2003 , pp. 2 - 3
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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