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NATO and the Expanding NBC/WMD Threat During Contingency Operations.(North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare threat)
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The factors of proliferation; international and domestic nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) terrorism; low-level toxic industrial hazards, and modern technology now leave us with the prospect of attack by briefcase-sized nuclear weapons, or even smaller chemical or biological weapons, and delivery by a person or vehicle (as opposed to missiles). Such an attack could come with little or no warning. The spontaneity of such attacks as those in Dhahran, Oklahoma, and the Tokyo and Paris undergrounds suggests that NATO and U.S. military units could be targets in peacetime as well ...
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