ose cities with a population of 144,000 people and above. This leaves a giant hole in domestic preparedness when one realizes that those large cities constitute only 46 percent of the population. The question for the new agency would be what type of training should be offered to smaller cities, if any at all. A second reform the president is advised to adopt is requiring greater cooperation between federal agencies. This cooperation could come in the form of all agencies reporting to the National Homeland Security Agency. Additionally, budgets should be increased to employ new technologies in intelligence gathering. Although some have expressed concern that overhauling intelligence may cause a degradation in information gathering for an intelligence system that has thus far proved successful, that does not appear to be of great concern. New technologies can be built upon the effective technologies that are presently used. These technologies will not necessarily undermine current technology. Finally, the last reform the president should adopt is increased funding for our healthcare system in America. The fact is that our healthcare system is not adequately trained to deal with mass injuries and casualties as the result of a terrorist attack. There needs to be an emphasis on training doctors in detecting obscure symptoms that may be the first signs of weapons deployment. The faster doctors figure out a patient’s ailment, the quicker the doctor can isolate the patient thus lessening the likelihood that the patient may spread a disease (should the biological weapon of choice be communicable).Furthermore, the United States needs to allocate money to increase the supplies of various vaccines and antidotes to several possible weapons. Although, as of right now, it seems highly unrealistic to innoculate a population of over 270 million people from disease, a large store of vaccines and antidotes could save a huge portion of t...
