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In February of 2005, the US Department of Homeland Security announced the creation of a new facility to study the threat from biological weapons. The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC, pronounced en-back) is currently being built at Fort Detrick in Maryland at a projected cost of $128 million. It will have enough lab space to fill a soccer pitch, and 20 per cent of it will offer the highest level of containment, Biosafety Level 4, designed to handle the most dangerous and exotic pathogens. The entire compound will operate under the same level of secrecy used to protect…