NATO's arsenal towards the inter-related issues of terrorism, chemical and biological warfare, and missile proliferation.
Killing people wasn't No. 1 on his list as Ken Alibek reeled off the goals of biological warfare.
This was a place to hide the nuclear testing grounds and the plants for chemical and biological warfare.
The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention was supposed to preclude the production or stockpiling of agents for biological warfare (BW).
Specifically, they have or are developing the ability to engage in devastating electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attacks, biological warfare and other asymmetric terrorist strikes.
There's no difficulty getting doctors to work on biological warfare, chemists to work on chemical warfare and physicists to work on nuclear warfare.
Ditto the Russians, Chinese and others perhaps to include Osama bin Laden and his ilk who are capable of waging biological warfare.
Although nuclear detonations in American cities are not to be slighted, still, the greatest and most likely perils are natural epidemics and biological warfare.
Ditto the Russians, Chinese and others -- perhaps to include Osama bin Laden and his ilk -- who are capable of waging biological warfare.
Would the President consider testing devices for sanitizing the mail against biological warfare threats, but affirm a prohibition on putting such technology to use?
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"I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard ... against the scourge of biological warfare, " Hatfill said.
The reason for this is that even by using highly infectious and lethal organisms in their Biowarfare epidemics (see above) the U.S. Department of Biological Warfare cannot infect everyone.
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Anthrax, which in nature is spread through infected animals and whose spores can live in the soil for years, is considered a potential agent for use in biological warfare.
Sources told CNN last year the strain of anthrax identified in the 2001 incidents was the same as that used in experiments at USAMRIID, the Army's biological warfare defense laboratory.
The relative difficulties of using agents of biological warfare effectively and the ease and effectiveness of alternatives (especially plain, old-fashioned explosives) argue against a massive expenditure of resources to counter bioterrorism.
Will Pyongyang, or Washington, want their bilateral dialogue to remain the major channel for tackling weapons of mass destruction: missiles, lingering nuclear doubts, and the ungrasped nettle of chemical and biological warfare?
Glasberg said a television network had obtained a copy of a novel Hatfill was writing -- about biological warfare -- that could have only come from the scientist's computer, which federal authorities have confiscated.
But their investigations into biological warfare had revealed a black hole of deceit: Iraqi officials were lying through their teeth about lethal stuff such as anthrax which is as easy to produce as it is to disguise.
In fact, within the past few weeks, the Soviet newspaper Literaturnaya Gazeta disclosed that a notorious accident in Sverdlovsk was as the Reagan administration long maintained an "accident" in the Soviet biological warfare program.
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Mr Mugabe last week sparked uproar by claiming the cholera outbreak was over in Zimbabwe, while Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu said the outbreak was the result of biological warfare launched by former colonial power Britain against Zimbabwe.
Kelly led all the visits and inspections of Russian biological warfare facilities from 1991 to 1994, before becoming in that year senior adviser on biological warfare for the United Nations in Iraq, holding the post until 1999.
Last month, Chad Mirkin 's Northwestern spinoff Nanosphere entered into a development contract with the U.S. Government Technical Support Working Group to use Nanosphere's proprietary biomolecular detection system (using gold nanoparticles) for detection of biological warfare agents like anthrax.
The abysmally deficient condition of U.S. capabilities in these areas is nothing less than a national scandal, particularly in view of the evidence so vividly on display in the war with Iraq that chemical and biological warfare threats continue to proliferate.
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In the face of such evidence, it is nothing less than scandalous that the U.S. government has failed for more than 15 years to conduct meaningful research even into defensive measures required to detect, type and neutralize the effects of lethal biological warfare.
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The effect of these actions would be to substantially exacerbate the adverse effect of the coming defense budget cuts in terms of the maintenance of an assured U.S. ability to deter Soviet aggression and to contend with the danger posed by such emerging threats as proliferation of ballistic missile and chemical and biological warfare technologies.
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He appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission last July to testify about his alleged role as architect of the apartheid government's covert chemical-and biological-warfare programme.
Emergency stocks of protective and decontamination equipment suitable for defending against the effects of nuclear, biological and chemical warfare should be established.
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The Japanese had been the aggressors, launching the war with a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and subsequently systematically and flagrantly violated various international agreements by employing biological and chemical warfare, torturing and murdering prisoners of war, and brutalizing civilians and forcing them to perform slave labor.
Testimony from former Czech Major General Jan Sejna, the most senior Warsaw Pact officer ever to defect to the United States, was cited to the effect that a substantial number of U.S. servicemen were secretly transferred from Vietnam to Russia via Czechoslovakia for heinous experiments with chemical, biological, radiological warfare and mind-altering drugs.
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