Jonathan B. Tucker

About the author: Jonathan B. Tucker directs the CBW (Chemical and Biological Weapons) Nonproliferation Project at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, which is part of the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California. He has written a few books, including Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons.

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union's vigorous biological warfare program was of grave concern to the United States. Now that the Soviet Union has collapsed, America must worry over the potential leaks of that "bioweapon" knowledge and technology to foreign governments or terrorist organizations. Of prime consideration are the number of newly-unemployed Soviet scientists who could defect to foreign countries willing to pay for their expertise in creating biological weapons. American...