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.
Brown +18 more
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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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Preventing “a virological Hiroshima”: Cold War press coverage of biological weapons disarmament [PDF]
, 2015 This article examines representations of biological weapons during a crucial period in the recent history of this form of warfare. The study draws on a corpus of newspaper articles from the US New York Times and the UK Times and Guardian written around ...
Alex Spelling +22 more
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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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Venom biotechnology: casting light on nature’s deadliest weapons using synthetic biology
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2023 Venoms are complex chemical arsenals that have evolved independently many times in the animal kingdom. Venoms have attracted the interest of researchers because they are an important innovation that has contributed greatly to the evolutionary success of ...
Tim Lüddecke +10 more
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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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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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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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