Atlantic Storm, a bioterrorism “table-top” simulation based on a scenario 0f a smallpox outbreak, was convened on January 14, 2005 and organized by the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), the Center for Transatlantic Relations of the Johns Hopkins University (JHU), and the Transatlantic Biosecurity Network.

The event was sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and the Nuclear Threat Initiative. [1, 2, 3]