To help prevent the spread of deadly scientific knowledge and germ-weapons expertise from Russia to Iran, Iraq and other potentially dangerous states, the administration has provided about $20 million between the fiscal years 1994 and 1999 to support collaborative research projects in Russia that redirect former germ-weapons scientists to peaceful research activities.
It's hard to be original in this day and age, but (to this writer's knowledge), Deadly Friend remains the only studio film to feature a character being decapitated by a basketball.
Although she cites Sumerian cuneiform tablets relating to knowledge of deadly pathogens in 1770 B.C., her book concentrates on warfare beginning in the Greek and Roman eras, when documentation is more reliable.
It is not clear whether the officers knew that Mr. Killinger was convicted last year for assault with a deadly weapon, although their knowledge of his actions in the gas station earlier on Monday probably gave them sufficient reason to expect that he would be violent, said Geoffrey Alpert, a professor in criminology at the University of South Carolina.
Complicating matters yet further, Washington has been intensely focused on a possible war in Iraq, allowing North Korea to seize control of its deadly nuclear materials in the knowledge that the United States can scarcely take on two major conflicts at once.
Despite decades of documented knowledge of the deadly nature of asbestos — from doctors, manufacturers, and government agencies alike — it remains legal and lethal in the United States, killing as many as 15,000 Americans every year.
But transparency can backfire, because sometimes nothing is more deadly for our taste buds than the knowledge that what we are eating is good for us.
Police officials today confirmed the wounding of a 12th victim by the sniper preying on the Washington region as they once more reached out directly to the mysterious figure they think has intimate knowledge of the sniper's deadly spree.
But the chances that some rogue state or terrorist group will successfully deploy germ weapons are seen as rising, as knowledge of how to make deadly weapons spreads, along with the necessary technology.
Yet while New Jersey has the expertise to make this deadly form of anthrax, it also possesses the knowledge to help halt it, he said.
