DOD Launches Five-Year Biosecurity Efforts In Pakistan, Afghanistan

摘要

New multimillion-dollar, five-year biosecurity projects in Pakistan and Afghanistan will reduce the risk of weapons of mass destruction falling into the wrong hands, according to Pentagon policy chief Michele Flournoy.rnIn a Sept. 2 letter to lawmakers, Flournoy lays out "sensitive but unclassified" details of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) projects, which open a new chapter in a Defense Department program that has helped destroy Soviet-era stockpiles of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons since 1991.