Abstract

When Al Qaeda hijacked four aeroplanes on 11th September 2001 and crashed them into the twin towers in New York, the Pentagon in Washington DC, and Pennsylvania, the world changed. The United States had suffered through international terrorism on a scale that was unimaginable. The war on terror began in earnest almost immedia-tely in the aftermath of these devastating events. And concern about the threat due to chemical and biological weapons is intimately connected. Specifically, the subsequent distribution of anthrax through the US postal system served to heighten public, professional, and political anxiety regarding bio-terrorist threats. In the wake of terror reflects on the shifting perceptions of security in the United States in the wake of …

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