"It's impossible for us even now to imagine a biological strike with a disease as deadly as smallpox," he said.
But the situation deteriorated as terrorists launched attacks on the island and, in short order, terrorists with ties to that group threatened a chemical or biological strike in Europe.
The Israeli security cabinet decided today to vaccinate 15,000 security, medical and rescue personnel against smallpox because of the possibility that Iraq might respond to any American attack with a biological strike on Israel.
It was widely believed that in the event of a chemical or a biological strike Israel would retaliate with nuclear weapons... "If the PLO had remained, like Jordan, on the sidelines, it would have survived the war unharmed," a senior American diplomat told writer.
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani is expected to name a senior police official to head the city's Office of Emergency Management, a four-year-old agency created to handle municipal crises ranging from subway crashes and water main breaks to potential chemical or biological terrorist strikes, city officials said yesterday.
That plan, which like Wednesday's is called a "biological opinion," was struck down by a federal judge as violating the Endangered Species Act.
Sure enough, Republicans who denounced the overall bill, said in their industry-fed statements that the biological drug provisions struck "the appropriate balance".
Mr. Land drafted a letter that argued that using military force against Iraq would fit the theological definition of a "just war," because it would amount to a defensive action against a biological or nuclear strike from Mr. Hussein.
Two years after setting targets in Aichi, Japan, for saving global biodiversity, the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity has struck its first deal on how to pay for the goals.
Similarly, the tight clustering of tissue types having related biological functions is striking.
He had called her husband "a biological insult"; as she struck him, she shrieked, "it's you that is the biological insult!"Such scenes might suggest that Serbia's special court for organised crime and war crimes is a joke.
