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New perspectives of protection against possible use of biological weapons [PDF]
Bezbednosni Dijalozi, 2017 Unlike nuclear and chemical weapons, biological weapons are means of mass destruction which is easily accessible. Open use of biological weapons in a military conflict is very unlikely, but it is more realistic in its application as a means of ...
Sergej Cvetkovski, Vanco Kenkov
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Investigating Disease Outbreaks under a Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2000 The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention prohibits the development, production, and stockpiling of biological weapons agents or delivery devices for anything other than peaceful purposes.
Mark Wheelis
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Di-san junyi daxue xuebao, 2020 The USA Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Teams (WMD-CST) is composed of various members of the US National Guard, and each state has at least 1 team.
ZOU Zhongmin, YANG Zhenzhong, LIN Hai
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A proposal for the classification of biological weapons sensu lato [PDF]
, 2014 Due to historical and legislation reasons, the category of bioweapons is rather poorly defined. Authors often disagree on involvin g or excl uding agents like hor mones, psychochemicals, certain plants and animals (such as weeds or pests) or ...
Rózsa, Lajos
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Emergency and First Aid in Cases of the Use of Chemical, Biological, Radiation, and Nuclear Weapons
Eurasian Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2016 Chemical, biological, and radioactive substances purposely, accidentally, or after a natural disaster cause a lot of harmful effects on people and the environment.
Erdal Tekin, Şahin Aslan
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The Social Dimension of Technology: The Control of Chemical and Biological Weapons
Artefactos, 2020 This paper deals with a number of conceptual issues that arise from attempts by governments and civil society to control the spread of chemical and biological weapons.
Brian BALMER
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SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL DETERMINANTS OF BIOLOGICAL WARS AND EPIDEMICS
Rozprawy Społeczne, 2019 This article describes the use of biological weapons from antiquity to the beginning of the 21st century and the importance of epidemics for the development and collapse of civilisations and states. It has been shown that both at a time when the etiology
Marcin Weiner, Karolina Tarasiuk
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Problems of Biosafety in Current International Law
Московский журнал международного права, 2022 INTRODUCTION. The presented article is devoted to an extremely curious and, without exaggeration, urgent topic. The authors seek to understand the content and legal concept of biosafety in International Law.
A. A. Danalya, E. E. Gulyaeva
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Enforcing scenario-based training to enhance chemical defense and health service support capacities
Di-san junyi daxue xuebao, 2020 Scenario-based training (SBT) is an effective means to improve the quality of military training.Chemical defense medicine, as an integral element in chemical, biological radiological and nuclear (CBRN) defense, plays a pivotal role in the organization ...
ZOU Zhongmin +3 more
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A Conceptual Model to Identify Intent to Use Chemical-Biological Weapons
Journal of Strategic Security, 2017 This paper describes a conceptual model to identify and interrelate indicators of intent of non-state actors to use chemical or biological weapons. The model expands on earlier efforts to understand intent to use weapons of mass destruction by building ...
Mary Zalesny, Paul Whitney, Amanda White
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