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• n  an action taken to offset another action

• As a countermeasure, the Navy might set its mines to go off at extremely faint signals.
• The newest Israeli countermeasure is an electronic barrier that stretches about 40 miles along the Jordan River Valley.
• With toxic silt still flowing downstream in the Pripyat, which is some 441 miles long, a dam on the left bank has been the only effective countermeasure, and dredging remains .

News & Articles

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• Neumedicines Receives an Award of $8.3 Million from BARDA for Continued Development of HemaMax as a Countermeasure to ...
  Neumedicines Inc., a privately held company developing therapies based on interleukin-12 as a radiation medical countermeasure and as a hematological adjuvant cancer therapy , announces the award of $8.3 million from the Biomedical Advanced Research & Development Authority of the U.S.
  June 10, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in International Herald Tribune
  In spite of Washingtons decision to fingerprint Iranian travelers who visit the United States, we have asked legislators to avoid a countermeasure,Ahmadinejad said.
• Lee Myung-bak in Xinhua
  A global crisis requires a global countermeasure, and what is most needed is joint efforts of South Korea and ASEAN that possess great potential and the chance for a rebound,Lee said in his keynote speech marking the opening of a business...
• Taro Aso in Earthtimes (press release)
  Japan will dispatch Self-Defence Force vessels off Somalia as a countermeasure against piracy,said Aso.