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That includes scientists who may be sympathetic to extreme causes.\u00a0 I have written a commentary for Forbes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lorenthompson\/2018\/06\/07\/white-house-preparing-bio-defense-strategy-as-germ-warfare-fears-rise\/#46dd229d4a7d\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time was, the phrase &#8220;weapons of mass destruction&#8221; was almost synonymous with nuclear weapons.\u00a0 Not in this White House, though.\u00a0 The Trump Administration is so concerned about biological threats and global pandemics that the National Security Council staff is preparing a dedicated bio-defense strategy.\u00a0 Pandemics have ravaged humanity from its earliest days &#8212; smallpox killed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>White House Preparing Bio-defense Strategy As Germ Warfare Fears Rise (From Forbes) - Lexington Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/white-house-preparing-bio-defense-strategy-germ-warfare-fears-rise-forbes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"White House Preparing Bio-defense Strategy As Germ Warfare Fears Rise (From Forbes) - Lexington Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Time was, the phrase &#8220;weapons of mass destruction&#8221; was almost synonymous with nuclear weapons.\u00a0 Not in this White House, though.\u00a0 The Trump Administration is so concerned about biological threats and global pandemics that the National Security Council staff is preparing a dedicated bio-defense strategy.\u00a0 Pandemics have ravaged humanity from its earliest days &#8212; smallpox killed [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/white-house-preparing-bio-defense-strategy-germ-warfare-fears-rise-forbes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lexington Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-06-07T18:58:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lex_share.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Loren B. 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