Barton Gellman quote

For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for and behave in the initial chaos of a mass-casualty event.
Barton Gellman
Barton Gellman
Born: Nov 3, 1960

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