The 21st century has been called
‘The Age of Terrorism’ due to the number of terrorist attacks which have
occurred internationally in the past 15 years. Traditionally, security concernshave been focused on nuclear and bomb threats. However, in recent years
concerns over biological weapons have increased. This is due in part to many
cases of the development of bioweapons by terrorists in the past decades, most
notably Aum Shinrikyo in Japan and the anthrax letter terrorist in the USA. It
is also due to the increased availability of information and technology
required to us aponising biological agents.