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“We’re most concerned today about developments in the biological area. Unlike nuclear which is a man-made material and reasonably scientifically difficult to produce, biological pathogens occur in nature.”
?Senator Bob Graham on the commission report
It’s likely that a weapon of mass destruction will be used somewhere in the world in the next five years. That’s the takeaway from a new report released by the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism. The chair of that commission, former Senator Bob Graham, talks with The Takeaway about the findings of that report.

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