Frank J. Cilluffo and Jack Thomas Tomarchio

In response to the threat of chemical or biological terrorism, U.S. government agencies have taken a number of steps toward bolstering emergency preparedness. Frank J. Cilluffo and Jack Thomas Tomarchio assert in the following viewpoint that locally based emergency response teams can help lessen the negative consequences of a chemical or biological attack. Cilluffo is a senior analyst at the Washington, D.C. Center for Strategic and International Studies, a nonpartisan public policy institution dedicated to policy analysis. Tomarchio is general counsel of Aloe Investment Corporation in Wayne, Pennsylvania. He is also a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves.

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