The NY Times Magazine recently ran an expose titled: How Ready Are We for Bioterrism? Conclusion: NOT READY YET. One has to PREPARE first. http://troll.me?p=98557 Once upon a time, a long time ago, namely June 2001, our US government ran a national security exercise called Dark Winter simulating a smallpox attack, to see if the country was ready for a biological weapon attack. Conclusion: NOT READY YET. Please note the names of the people involved in this drill. Exercise Summary: On June 22-23, 2001, the Center for Strategic and International Studies , the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies , the ANSER Institute for Homeland Security , and the Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention Terrorism , hosted a senior-level war game examining the national security, intergovernmental, and information challenges of a biological attack on the American homeland. With tensions rising in the Taiwan Straits, and a major crisis deve