U.S. BUDGET:
Spending Triples on Terrorism R&D
David Malakoff
Eleven federal agencies will share in a record $1.5 billion that Congress has showered on terrorism-related R&D for 2002 in response to the 11 September and anthrax attacks. The money--nearly triple last year's spending--will be used for everything from new laboratories for studying potential bioweapons to developing hacker-proof computer systems.