A white powder was mailed to three United Nations foreign missions in Manhattan office buildings on Monday, but no one was harmed by it, the police said.
The powder, delivered in envelopes, was reported by workers at the Uzbekistan Mission, at 801 Second Avenue, near 43rd Street; the French Mission, at 245 East 47th Street, near Second [...]
Source:washingtonpost.com
Seven years after the 2001 anthrax attacks, a congressionally ordered study finds a growing threat of biological terrorism and calls for aggressive defenses on par with those used to prevent a terrorist nuclear detonation.
Due for release next week, a draft of the study warns that future bioterrorists may use new technology to make synthetic [...]
