Biological Terrorism Quotes

The possession of biological weapons—or actions unambiguously designed to produce them—should be categorized as a crime against humanity.

The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.

In former times humans had fear of the future. Today the future must have fear of humans.

If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror.

During the morning rush hour on March 20, 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo placed packages on five subway trains converging on Tokyo's central station. When punctured, the packages spread vaporized Sarin through the subway cars and then into the stations as the trains pulled in.

But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer.

Weapons of mass destruction are the greatest threat to life on earth. Biological weapons are often called the poor man's atomic bomb. Saddam Hussein is the ruler who has for decades been making the most determined and diabolical illegal effort to acquire them.

The public has every right to expect that the strongest and most powerful country in the world would be ready for the very worst, but it is not. We don't have much time left to make this right. Until we are able to put moral purpose ahead of expedient politics, history will judge us a democracy unwilling or unable to take care of its own

Sometimes we have to think very clearly about the unthinkable because the unthinkable sometimes happens.

Biological terrorism poses the ultimate asymmetric threat but it should be considered in the same class as the nuclear threat.