Terrorism and counterterrorism

• Sector Report for Friday, 9 September 2011:
  • Al Qaeda "very much alive"; U.S. needs to be "aggressive and preemptive"
  • Biological weapons: U.S. must not repeat the failure of imagination
  • We are in an "era of terror": individuals, small groups can kill on a mass scale
  • Apathy a "central threat" to nuclear security, says expert
  • The "lost decade" of cybersecurity: adversaries outpace cyber-defenses
  • Congress should permanently authorize chemical security bill