ons useless, maybe for a relatively short period of time, for three to five years.How important is it to immediately create a system to defend against this? Are we ready as a country, right now, to defend against the use of these agents?This country is the only country now in the world that is capable to do this work. If we are able to gather those people to organize a series of meetings, scientific meetings to develop this type of program, we will be capable of solving this problem.The problem is [that] we usually don't do anything until something happens. But, when it happens, it's too late. I'm not a psychic. I cannot predict what will happen in a year, in two years. The problem is that it will happen, unfortunately. But maybe for the first time, let's try just to do something before it happens.Right now, with what the Soviet Union is going through, the instability of the government, the problem with the economy, does that scare you? Could that have an effect on the problem of proliferation?If you imagine an angry country, a country that is collapsing, but this country has a huge military capability, of manufacturing and applying weapons of mass destruction--that's very scary. What we need to do, until this government is in power, to solve this problem, to reduce a possible threat from this country in the future, by developing something to control these weapons better, to destroy some capabilities. And specifically, when you are talking about my area of biological weapons, we need to do everything possible to destroy this country's offensive biological capabilities. home . interviews . 1979 anthrax leak . what happened in south africa . faqsdiscussion . readings . timeline . synopsis . press reaction . tapes & transcripts . frontline online . pbs online New Content Copyright 1998 PBS Online and WGBH/FRONTLINE...
