Development of and prospects for the biological weapons convention
Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity, 2022 Biological weapons are used in wars to wound or kill people or animals and destroy crops with pathogenic microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses, as well as toxins and other biologically active substances.
Liang Huigang +4 more
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The "Biological Weapons" of Ehrlichia chaffeensis: Novel Molecules and Mechanisms to Subjugate Host Cells. [PDF]
Front Cell Infect Microbiol, 2021 Ehrlichia chaffeensis is an obligatory intracellular bacterium that causes human monocytic ehrlichiosis, an emerging, potentially fatal tick-borne infectious disease.
Rikihisa Y.
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Toxins as biological weapons for terror-characteristics, challenges and medical countermeasures: a mini-review. [PDF]
Disaster Mil Med, 2016 Toxins are hazardous biochemical compounds derived from bacteria, fungi, or plants. Some have mechanisms of action and physical properties that make them amenable for use as potential warfare agents.
Berger T +5 more
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False allegations of biological-weapons use from Putin’s Russia
The Nonproliferation Review, 2020 From 1949 until 1988, the Soviet Union conducted a nearly continuous campaign of false allegations of biological-weapon (BW) use by the United States. In 1995, senior Russian military officials revived this pattern of false allegations, which continues ...
M. Leitenberg
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Bioterrorism as an Imminent Security Threat [PDF]
Bezbednosni Dijalozi, 2015 At the end of the 20th and early 21st century, there is a noticeable increase in the number of terrorist attacks and the threat of biological weapons. The potential the destructiveness of bioterrorism is such that it can now be considered as a strategic
Zoran Keković, Miodrag Jakovljević
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Artificial intelligence and biological misuse: Differentiating risks of language models and biological design tools [PDF]
arXiv.org, 2023 As advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) propel progress in the life sciences, they may also enable the weaponisation and misuse of biological agents.
J. Sandbrink
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Assessing emerging technologies from an arms control perspective
Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 2022 Developments in science and technology improve health and wellbeing of humankind, for example with better methods to detect and treat diseases. However, some advances have led to the development of weapons of mass destruction: chemical and biological ...
Maximilian Brackmann +3 more
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Biological weapons and health protection against biological terrorism [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2019 The possibility of using biological means has become a reality. A biological attack is the deliberate use of living microorganisms or their toxic products to cause disease and death in humans, animals and plants. Methods of biological attack and its main
Blahova Marta
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Biological Weapons Testing at Porton Down
Humanimalia, 2023 This article focuses on the use of nonhuman animals for biological weapons testing by military scientists at Porton Down Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, 1948–1955.
Catherine Duxbury
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Military Importance of Natural Toxins and Their Analogs
Molecules, 2016 Toxin weapon research, development, production and the ban on its uses is an integral part of international law, with particular attention paid to the protection against these weapons. In spite of this, hazards associated with toxins cannot be completely
Vladimír Pitschmann, Zdeněk Hon
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