Frank J. Cilluffo

Frank J. Cilluffo is a special adviser to the president on homeland security. He formerly was a policy analyst with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In the following viewpoint, excerpted from testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Cilluffo argues that the United States must prepare for a possible biological warfare (BW) attack. In addition to the dozen or so countries believed to possess or to be pursuing biological weapons, he asserts that terrorist groups and other “non-state actors” may utilize biological warfare against the United States. Religious and ideologically based terrorist groups pose an especially worrisome threat. The United States must work with other nations to prevent countries and terrorist groups from attempting biological warfare, he...