NCBC Features
Biological materials and technologies, almost always dual use, move easily in the globalized economy, as do personnel with the scientific expertise to design and use them.
Nation-state efforts to develop or acquire weapons of mass destruction (WMD), their delivery systems, or their underlying technologies constitute a major threat to the security of the United States
Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria by both state and non-state actors demonstrates that the threat of WMD is real.