Within a month after the September 11, 2001 attacks, letters containing dry powder spores of anthrax bacteria were sent through the U.S. mail. Letters postmarked September 18 were addressed to Tom Brokaw of NBC News and the New York Post in New York City. Three other letters never recovered are believed to have been sent... Read More

The FBI has stamped “case closed� on the Amerithrax file—another one of those terrifying episodes of random violence perpetrated against Americans that, apparently because it was perpetrated by a conservative American, is not terrorism. When Dr. Bruce Ivins, the designated perp in this drama, was first publicly fingered, I wrote a post on the national... Read More

Biodefense’s USAMRIID Problem Biohazards bring out the weird in people. Especially people from USAMRIID—the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick. The quote about Dustin Hoffman comes from Tales from Development Hell (Titan Books, London: 2003), a book by David Hughes that recounts the tortured path that movie projects can take... Read More