The United States and the Soviet Union, in their forsaken programs to make germ weapons, focused their bulk production of deadly biological agents on 10 kinds of bacteria, viruses and toxins.
Dr. Khan, a fervent nationalist, has condemned the system that limits legal nuclear knowledge to the five major nuclear powers, or that has ignored Israel's nuclear weapon while focusing on the fear of an Islamic bomb.
President Obama needs to clearly promulgate a strategy that downgrades the role of nuclear weapons and demands that the weapons complex focuses clearly on its mission: guaranteeing the security and reliability of a shrinking arsenal.
Mr. Rybak, a Democrat, said he would not be satisfied by a compromise on gun control measures that did not address assault weapons and focused only on background checks.
In its report, the panel found: "The intelligence community's expectation that Iraq would move to mobile biological weapons production focused their attention on reporting that supported that contention and led them to disregard information that contradicted it".
Even if the Syrians don't turn over much of their chemical arsenal, a U.N. blessing of a program to remove the weapons would focus attention on the Syrian stockpile and probably make Assad more careful about provocative new attacks.
In 2013 and 2014, more than 150 countries came together -- in Oslo, Vienna and Nayarit, Mexico -- in a series of historic conferences on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons, to focus attention on the actual consequences of nuclear war.
Instead of acknowledging Reagan's penchant for negotiation and hatred of nuclear weapons, they focused on Reagan's simplicity and deduced that, to defeat an enemy, one needs nothing more than moral clarity and military might.
Terror during trauma focuses one's attention, strengthening memory for the most salient features of the experience, and occasionally at the expense of less salient ones as the phenomenon of "weapon focus" illustrates.
This logic is akin to the original weapon focus literature (Fawcett, Russell, Peace, & Christie, 2013).
