Hundreds being tested, 8 cases in Florida, 5 in New York, contamination in Nevada and one confirmed death. Anthrax. Bio-terrorism. By a measure of illness, exposure and death, the impact is slight. Yet how many weekend conversations weren't tainted with trepidation over the mystery and the fear of silent, insidious, weapons? And that's a problem for US leaders who want to warn the nation of danger without pushing "possibility" into "panic."
Whether the current Anthrax scares are connected to September eleventh or not, experts insist the United States could have been better prepared. And it would have been, had it taken more seriously proposed international conventions meant to criminalize the manufacture of biological weapons.
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Jeanne Guillemin, Professor of Sociology at Boston College and Professor Matthew Meselson, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University.
