Companies are also working to protect soldiers through the destruction or neutralization of chemical and biological agents.
First, most natural forms of biological agents are not highly infectious, and highly infectious seed stock is difficult to obtain.
U.S. officials predicted before the war that at least 100 metric tons of weapon-ready chemical and biological agents would be found.
It can be sprayed or rubbed on equipment, clothing and people that have been exposed to biological agents, including anthrax and smallpox.
Although a Japanese cult-group, Aum Shinrikyo, planned to use biological weapons they actually attempted and failed to disseminate biological agents for terrorist purposes.
The rooms are designed like upgraded 1950s bomb shelters, with air filters to screen out biological agents, dedicated phone lines, bathrooms and closed-circuit TV systems.
Klabunde is now targeting biological agents like E. coli and anthrax.
NPR's David Kestenbaum traveled to Arizona for a look at how the NAU research fits into the larger world of identifying biological agents used in terrorist attacks.
Unlike a search for traces of radioactivity that can be done very quickly, looking for traces of chemical and biological agents can take longer, adding to the risk.
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Worse still, according to the Iraq Survey Group, Saddam's planning envisioned placing toxic chemical and biological agents in aerosol cans and perfume sprayers for shipment to the United States and Europe.
It was to help the UK to assess the risk of an attack using biological agents by providing important information about their likely dispersion in the open air during the Cold War.
Also on Tuesday, the Defense Intelligence Agency investigated a case of possible biological agents being concealed in mail sent to the agency at its Bolling Air Force Base Headquarters in Washington, D.
This will allow them, for instance, to demand to be shown evidence of what has become of missiles that could be filled with chemical or biological agents, or the stocks of previously uncovered material that might be used to make such weapons.
The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention was supposed to preclude the production or stockpiling of agents for biological warfare (BW).
Iraq, however, then circulated a report at the UN on October 7th, insisting that its capabilities to produce biological and chemical agents were destroyed during the 1991 Gulf war.
Novel nanosensors will allow for the rapid detection, diagnosis and prescription of antidotes to deadly biological or chemical agents--such technologies could ensure safety of both armed forces and civilian populations.
Iraq claims that all its biological weaponry, stocks of agents, and manufacturing equipment were destroyed immediately after the Gulf war, and the residues buried.
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