Toxin and Bioregulator Weapons
Toxin and Bioregulator Weapons

Author: Michael Crowley

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-11-22

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 3031101642

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This book explores how revolutionary developments and convergence of the chemical, life and associated sciences are impacting contemporary toxin and bioregulator research, and examines the risks of such research being misused for malign purposes. Investigating illustrative cases of dual use research of potential concern in China, India, Iran, Russia, Syria and the USA, the authors discuss how states can ensure such research and related activities are not utilised in weapons development. Although toxins and bioregulators are, in theory, covered by both the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and Chemical Weapons Convention, this apparent overlap in reality masks a dangerous regulatory gap – with neither Convention implemented effectively to address threats of weaponisation. This book highlights the potentially damaging consequences for international peace and security, and proposes realistic routes for action by states and the scientific community.

Public Health Response to Biological and Chemical Weapons
Public Health Response to Biological and Chemical Weapons

Author: World Health Organization

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2004-01-21

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 9241546158

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This is the second edition of this publication which focuses on the public health aspects of the possible deliberate use of biological or chemical agents. Issues discussed include: the key principles for public health planning, risk assessment, hazard identification and evaluation, risk management strategies, and response planning as part of existing national emergency plans, disease surveillance and early warning systems, the national and international legal framework, and international sources of assistance. Technical annexes cover a range of issues including chemical agents, toxins, biological agents, principles of protection, precautions against the sabotage of drinking water, food and other products, information resources and the affiliation of WHO Member States to the international treaties on biological and chemical weapons.

Verification of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
Verification of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

Author: Malcolm R. Dando

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-09

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 940173643X

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In the summer of 1997 some twelve lecturers and sixty students met for ten days in Budapest Hungary in a NATO Advanced Studies Institute (ASI) to consider "New Scientific and Technical Aspects of Verification of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention". In many ways the meeting was ahead of its time. The Ad Hoc Group was only then about to move to the discussion of a rolling text of the Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC). It had been mandated to negotiate the Protocol by the Special Conference which had considered the work of the VEREX process that had taken place following the 1991 Third Review Conference of the Convention. Now, in late 1999, after much further negotiation of the text of the Protocol we are moving towards the endgame of the negotiations. Nevertheless, the scientific and technical issues discussed in the ASI in Hungary continue to be of direct relevance to the verification of the Convention and will continue to be relevant as the eventual Protocol moves from agreement through a Preparatory Commission stage and into full implementation over the next several years. The papers in this volume are much as they were presented in Budapest both in order of presentation and in content. They were designed by the ASI co-directors, Professor Graham Pearson and Ambassador Tibor Toth (Chairman of the Ad Hoc Group) to provide an integrated overview and in-depth analysis of the issues at stake.

Biological Weapons
Biological Weapons

Author: Sharad S. Chauhan

Publisher: APH Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 9788176487320

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Aims To Sensitize The Public Regarding The Spectra Fo Biological Weapons And Highlights The Fact That Biological Weapons Could Seriously Pose A Threat To Inernational Security Of In The Hands Of Terorists And Unethical States.

Neuroscience and the Future of Chemical-Biological Weapons
Neuroscience and the Future of Chemical-Biological Weapons

Author: Malcolm Dando

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-07-21

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1137381825

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During the last century, advances in the life sciences were used in the development of biological and chemical weapons in large-scale state offensive programmes, many of which targeted the nervous system. This study questions whether the development of novel biological and chemical neuroweapons can be prevented as neuroscience progresses.

Weapons of Mass Casualties and Terrorism Response Handbook
Weapons of Mass Casualties and Terrorism Response Handbook

Author: Charles Edward Stewart

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780763724252

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Incidents in Terrorism - Boxed text providing background on terrorist events involving weapons of mass casualties. Incidents Involving Chemicals - Boxed text providing background on non-terrorist incidents involving chemicals. In-hosp

BIOTECHNOLOGY - Volume XII
BIOTECHNOLOGY - Volume XII

Author: Horst W. Doelle

Publisher: EOLSS Publications

Published: 2009-11-16

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 1848262663

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This Encyclopedia of Biotechnology is a component of the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. Biotechnology draws on the pure biological sciences (genetics, animal cell culture, molecular biology, microbiology, biochemistry, embryology, cell biology) and in many instances is also dependent on knowledge and methods from outside the sphere of biology (chemical engineering, bioprocess engineering, information technology, biorobotics). This 15-volume set contains several chapters, each of size 5000-30000 words, with perspectives, applications and extensive illustrations. It carries state-of-the-art knowledge in the field and is aimed, by virtue of the several applications, at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students, Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers and NGOs.

Technology for Combating WMD Terrorism
Technology for Combating WMD Terrorism

Author: P. Stopa

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-19

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1402026838

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Much has been written on WMD terrorism, but few books present a systems approach to this problem. In this book, we present an integrated view of WMD terrorism. The threat section reviews several scenarios that a terrorist might use and a very comprehensive list of the possible biological organisms and compounds that can be used as biological, mid-spectrum, and chemical threats. In the science and technology section, the technical aspects of a successful defense against WMD agents are presented. Arguments are presented for the control of the release of scientific information to bolster CB defense. Approaches to biological agent detection and a system for ranking detection technologies are discussed next. The generic approach to biological screening and detection is then illustrated with some applications of generic detectors to water, food, and aerosol. The future of biological detection and identification is also presented, along with a call to perhaps change the paradigms that we are using. The last section of the book deals with response system planning. An example of regional cooperation is presented. Risk-based management is discussed and a practical example of this approach to emergency planning is presented. Arguments for an epidemiological reporting system are presented, while the last chapter discusses means to integrate the various components of a response system via a software tool.

The Chemical and Biological Nonproliferation Regime after the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Chemical and Biological Nonproliferation Regime after the Covid-19 Pandemic

Author: Malcolm Dando

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-02-21

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 3031191080

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This book offers an analysis of how the Chemical and Biological Weapons (CBW) regime has responded in the immediate aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Coronavirus has highlighted the need to better protect modern societies from natural, accidental and deliberate disease affecting humans, animals and plants. Within that context preventing the deliberate hostile use of biological and chemical agents will be of increasing importance. Dando asks to what extent there has been a significant strengthening to the CBW non-proliferation regime in the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic using an analysis focused on two proposals to strengthen the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention which aim to constrain advances in science and technology developments that could be misused. On this basis he concludes that it would be hard to argue that to date there has been a significant strengthening of the CBW regime.