10 ◾ Risk Assessment and Security
of weapons, and expand and strengthen our capabilities to detect, protect against,
mitigate, respond to, and recover from an attack (US HRCHS 2013). Improving
intelligence is a necessary enabler for all other steps to reduce WMD vulnerability
(US DoD 2007). Still, DoD can help create a truly integrated WMD intelligence
community focused on improving strategic knowledge through innovative collec-
tion, dramatically revitalized analysis, and a war room mentality for attacking the
problem and inuencing the plans and perspectives of relevant actors (US DoD
2007). Since 1993, DoD has been laying greater emphasis on the nuclear, biologi-
cal, and chemical (NBC) threat in its planning and policy documents (US GAO ...