But he has doubts about whether they would help in a chemical or biological attack.
Ms O'Toole says that hardly any American cities have practised their response to a biological attack.
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Mr Raffarin said that the threat of a biological attack by terrorists made access to vaccines imperative.
It has left the investigation showing little progress, and a year later questions remain about how best America can protect itself against any future biological attack.
If there is a biological attack on U.S. soil, Cantor says, the method could be used to screen hundreds of thousands of patients to see if they are infected.
Across the European Union, there is broad agreement that the 15 member states need to co-operate in preparing for a chemical or biological attack, but little progress has been made.
And in February 2003, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security advised Americans to stock up on duct tape and plastic sheeting so that they could seal their homes in the event of a chemical or biological attack.
DC, found that over 80% of past and present senior American officials, congressmen and non-government experts interviewed thought a biological attack in the next five to ten years to be likely, very likely or else a dead cert.
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Blue Gene will speed along at 1, 000 teraflops and will also be used to attack biological problems.
Not long ago, the Bush administration quietly asserted that it might use nuclear weapons in a conflict first if the US suffers a biological or chemical weapons attack.
It was to help the UK to assess the risk of an attack using biological agents by providing important information about their likely dispersion in the open air during the Cold War.
But its 16 authors, led by Michael Ladisch, a biological engineer at Purdue University, reckon that high-tech chow will, within the next 25 years, protect troops from attack by biological weapons, insulate them against cold weather and even make them visible to their commanders by satellite.
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While the Times report said that the attack will involve a biological weapon, one government source said he was not aware of Walker saying anything of the kind.
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He thought an allied attack was unlikely to lead to an accidental release of Iraqi biological weapons, which were a much bigger threat, because the sites where they had been made had been inspected.
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