Coalition partners, including many NATO Allies, have nuclear, chemical and biological defense-related capabilities and expertise that can play an important role.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Post-War Planning

Also on Tuesday, the Defense Intelligence Agency investigated a case of possible biological agents being concealed in mail sent to the agency at its Bolling Air Force Base Headquarters in Washington, D.

WSJ: Ricin Charges Are Dropped

But though the biological sciences advance day by day and could put up a spirited defense, they can do so only if efforts are begun now on a scale several orders of magnitude beyond what is scheduled.

WSJ: Our Blindness

The Center for Biological Diversity was one of three environmental groups, including Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council, that sued the federal government to force a decision on the status of the polar bears.

CNN: Polar bear now listed as 'threatened' species

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld appeared to support that premise Tuesday, saying a possible reason that Iraqi chemical and biological weapons have not been found was that Saddam's government had destroyed them before the conflict.

CNN: War of words over Iraqi weapons