Bluepaper: Setting Aggressive & Proactive Goals Against Biological Warfare Threats

Much is made in homeland security and defense papers of "validating biological threats," and "deterring" them. Both are vitally necessary. However, there must be a more proactive, aggressive approach to the anti-bioweapon regime.

U.S. efforts should include funding for deployable, remotely transportable nano-technologies capable of entering into biowarfare facilities, navigating into biological weapons stocks, and microscopically destroying dangerous viruses and bacteria. In theory, these same devices would be useful in detecting and counteracting stolen bioweapons. The U.S. should never confirm or deny this capability, should it develop or not develop.

As a follow-up deterrent, nano-technologies must also be capable of monitoring every aspect of biowarfare research, production, testing, transport, error and development. The U.S. should neither confirm or deny this capability.

Perhaps the most important deterrent of all is universal education about the dangers of disease mutation, travel and world pandemic. If ever there was a "weapon" with fewer controls against unintended consequences for its users than biowarfare agents, this analyst has yet to hear of it.