In the United Nations (UN) report titled "Report of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change" in 2004, six clusters of global security threats that the world has now faced and will face in years ahead are listed as economic and social threats, inter-state conflicts, internal conflicts, weapons of mass destructions, terrorism, and transnational organized crimes (The United Nations, 2004, 23). "Biological weapons" are not listed as a threat in this report.