Summary: Just after 9/11, the U.S. was rocked by another deadly act of terrorism when letters containing anthrax were sent to unsuspecting victims. The anonymous assault claimed five lives and caused panic throughout the country. Despite inter-agency turf wars and several false leads, FBI investigators closed in on a shocking prime suspect: a scientist embedded in the top-security USAMRIID lab with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOTFrist, William H.
Summary: Bioterrerism has quickly become one of the most pressing and disturbing issues of our time. Our nation's leaders warn that the threat of germ weapons by terrorists is real, and, more importantly, that the United States remains highly vulnerable. Such statements have led to a national sense of fear and unease. Every American wants answers. What can we do to protect our families and loved ones?...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.6 FRISummary: In the arsenal of terrorism, biological weapons, particularly anthrax, have many compelling characteristics. In this program, leading experts from both the U.S. and the former Soviet Union provide chilling commentary on why bioterrorism is likely to become a global threat, citing recent incidents as well as the once-classified results of a 1966 joint U.S. Army/CIA bio-weapon experiment...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Billings, Tanner
Summary: "What is biosecurity? It's the methods militaries use to protect us from biological attacks, and developing biosecurity systems, protocols, and technology requires the application of every area of STEM. As such, readers gain a stronger understanding of a variety of STEM concepts as they explore this exciting and essential topic. They learn how the things they learn in the classroom can applied...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 358 BILEichenwald, Kurt
Summary: Presents an account of the first five hundred days after September 11 that reveals previously undisclosed information about the terror wars, warrantless wiretapping, and the anthrax attacks.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 EICSummary: At the peak of the terrorist anthrax attack, more than 500 people per hour were dying, hospitals were filled to capacity, basic services were breaking down, looting had begun, and space to store the dead was running out. In this program-part two of a hypothetical scenario-ABC News anchor Ted Koppel presents two successive reports, plotting out the progress of the fictional biological attack on...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: It began with flu-like symptoms, but within a few days progressed in severity until patients began dying in droves. Emergency rooms were overrun, and hysteria had enveloped the metropolis. What was the cause of the ghastly plague? In this program-part one of a hypothetical scenario-ABC News anchor Ted Koppel delivers three successive reports, tracking the advance of a fictional biological...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Miller, Judith
Summary: Presents an account of germ weaponry around the globe, including the Soviet Union's biological weapons program that contains an abundance of anthrax germs, and the United States' attempt to put an end to these efforts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001