Security Risk?
Science · 2002
Does one of the world's largest collections of dead animals pose a threat to Washington, D.C.? Yes, argue congressional lawmakers, who recently added a provision to an emergency security spending bill that would give the Smithsonian Institution $2 million to plan a new facility in Suitland, Maryland, to relocate its vast collection of fish, sponges, corals, worms, and insects. Stored in almost 3 million liters of alcohol at the National Museum of Natural History on the capital's Mall, the collection amounts to a massive bomb, lawmakers say.