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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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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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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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Bioterrorism and U.S. domestic preparedness: Bureaucratic fragmentation and American vulnerability [PDF]
, 2011 This article takes a closer look at the United States’ domestic preparedness program. Beginning in the mid-1990s, the domestic preparedness program has served as the United States’ disaster response and management option in the case of a biological or ...
Fry-Pierce, Christine C. +1 more
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Past as prologue? The risk of adoption of chemical and biological weapons by non-state actors in the EU [PDF]
, 2017 There have been relatively few serious incidents of chemical or biological terrorism in Europe; however, there is growing concern over how non-state groups might exploit chemistry and biology for hostile purposes in the future.
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Introduction: The Path Forward to a WMD Free Zone in the Middle East
Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2022 The idea of a weapons of mass destruction-free zone (hereafter WMDFZ, or simply “zone”) in the Middle East is decades old and was first proposed by Egypt in 1990 with support from Iran.
Emad Kiyaei
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Chemical and biological weapons a real threat in the armed conflict of Russia and Ukraine. [PDF]
Defence Science Review, 2022 Objectives: Celem niniejszego artykułu było przedstawienie przedstawienie przez autora wieloletniej działalności Rosji w aspekcie produkcji zarówno broni biologicznej jak również chemicznej, a także prowadzeniu przez nią badań nad skutkami wynikającymi ...
Agnieszka Hanna Napieralska
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