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090 $aUG447.8$b.E275 2011
245 00 $aEarly observations on possible defenses by the Emerging Threat Agent Project /$cBruce W. Bennett ... [et al.].
260 $aSanta Monica, CA :$bRAND,$c2011.
300 $aiv, 19 p. :$bill.$c28 cm.
490 1 $aOccasional paper ;$vOP-290-DTRA
500 $a"Prepared for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency."
500 $a"National Defense Research Institute."
520 $aThe Defense Department's 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review expressed concerns about emerging chemical and biological (CB) weapon agents and the ability of U.S. defenses to counter them. Scientific advances that facilitate the development of new and novel CB agents and the difficulties uncovering such work suggest that adversary programs could acquire new CB agents years before U.S. defense planners recognize those agents. Once these CB agents are recognized as threats, the United States will probably need many more years to establish a comprehensive defense against them, and even these defenses are unlikely to protect the civilians, contractors, and allied military personnel essential to modern U.S. military operations. Such gaps in CB agent defense capabilities pose a potentially serious risk to U.S. military operations.
520 $aTo best mitigate this risk, the U.S. Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP) needs to augment current work with enhanced efforts to dissuade adversary CB agent development and to deter adversary use of new CB weapons. Successful initiatives in dissuasion and deterrence will depend on CB defensive programs that appear dynamic, progressive, and integrated with other Defense Department and national-level efforts in counterproliferation. The CBDP could add a second track to the current agent-specific science and technology effort to focus on the mechanisms of CB agent effects and interactions with the environment. The goal of the resulting robust combination of CBDP defense, dissuasion, and deterrence is to induce great doubts in adversaries about the value of employing any CB agents or developing new CB agents.
530 $aAlso available through the World Wide Web. Address as of 03/03/2011: http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/occasional_papers/2011/RAND_OP290.pdf
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
650 0 $aBiological weapons$zUnited States.
650 0 $aBiological arms control$zUnited States.
650 0 $aChemical weapons$zUnited States.
650 0 $aChemical arms control$zUnited States.
651 0 $aUnited States$xDefenses.
700 1 $aBennett, Bruce W.,$d1952-
710 2 $aRand Corporation.
710 2 $aNational Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
710 1 $aUnited States.$bDefense Threat Reduction Agency.
830 0 $aOccasional paper (Rand Corporation) ;$vOP-290-DTRA.
988 $a20110307
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906 $0OCLC