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Organizations and Resources
Biological Effects
- See also Organizations page, especially DoD and other government resources.
- United Nations
- U.N. Disarmament Home Page
- NBC and/or multi-threat
- The Nonproliferation Review, by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)
- Applied Science and Analysis, Inc., "established in 1983 to specialize in nuclear, biological and chemical defense and protection issues worldwide"
- Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), "conversion of military resources for civilian purposes"
- CW destruction in Russia, project by BICC
- Joint Bradford - SIPRI Chemical and Biological Warfare Project
- Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute (CBACI)
- Federation of American Scientists (FAS) home page
- Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), Monterey Institute of International Studies
- Biological
- U.S. Navy Chemical-Biological Defense
- U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland
- U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command (SBCCOM)
- Responding First to Bioterrorism, for "first responders" - from the National Academies
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)
- Bradford Project on Strengthening the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
- Joint Bradford - SIPRI Chemical and Biological Warfare Project
- Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute (CBACI)
- Henry L. Stimson Center
- Defence Research Establishment Suffield (DRES) "to protect the Canadian Forces against chemical and biological warfare, and to enhance their capabilities to manoeuvre and deny mobility to an adversary through timely expert scientific advice and associated technology development."
- Counter-Terrorism
- The International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism
- Security Studies Resources
- INCORE Regional Internet Guides, by the Initiative on Conflict Resolution & Ethnicity (INCORE)
- The Brookings Institution, public policy issues
- The Canadian Insititute of Strategic Studies (CISS)
- Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford Univ.
Genetic Effects
- Chemical/Biological/Radiological Incident Handbook, from the Interagency Intelligence Committee on Terrorism - shows differences between the different types of attack
- Bioterrorism articles
- Epidemiologic Information on Bioterrorism, UCLA School of Public Health
- Medical NBC Information Server, from U.S. Army Surgeon General
- Medical NBC Glossary
- Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare, published by the Office of the Surgeon General, U.S. Army (Local Copy)
- Medical Management of Biological Casualties, U.S. Army Handbook, Feb 2001 (Local copy)
- Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering: Implications for the Development of New Warfare Agents (1996) ---(local copy)
- Annex B: Selected Biotechnology Terms ---(local copy)
- 1918 Flu Pandemic
- The Influenza Pandemic of 1918, killed more than WW I, lowered ave. life span in U.S. by 10 years; accusations of bio-war and soldiers' symptoms due to gas attacks and trench conditions (shades of Gulf War Syndrome)
- 1918 Flu on PBS: countries accuse each other of biological warfare, vaccines ineffective
- Nuclear Biological Chemical, bibliographies, Air University Library
- Battlefield of the Future: 21st Century Warfare Issues, by Schneider and Grinter
Biological Weapons Treaties and Laws
- Human Genome Project Information, coordinated by Dept of Energy and National Institutes of Health
- Human Genome Program (HGP)
- Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health
- DOE Microbial Genome Program, program to sequence genetic material of microbial organisms, a spin-off of the Human Genome Program
- Primer on Molecular Genetics, 2003, from Dept of Energy ---(local copy, PDF)
Threat Risk
- Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 (local copy)
- Biological Weapons Convention ---(local copy)
- Biological Weapons Convention texts posted by Federation of American Scientists
Technologies Involved
- Bioterrorism articles
- The Global Infectious Disease Threat and Its Implications for the United States (local copy), National Intelligence Estimate NIE 99-17D, Jan 2000
- Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Assessing the Risks, 1993 OTA publication ---(local copy)
- Former Soviet Biological Weapons Facilities in Kazakhstan: Past, Present, and Future, by Bozheyeva, et al
- Terrorism and Intelligence Operations: Potential Impact on the U.S. Economy, statement by Dr. Kenneth Alibek to Congressional committee
Historical Notes
- See also Technology section on Homeland Security site
- Rapid Syndrome Validation Project (RSVP), internet based system coordinating info from a variety of physicians/locations, keyed to particular symtoms (flu-like, fever with skin findings or altered mental states, acute bloody diarrhea, hepatitis, adult respiratory distress syndrome) which represent the majority of symptoms for bioterrorism, emerging diseases, and epidemics
- Joint Biological Remote Early Warning Systems (JBREWS)
- Militarily Critical Technologies (MCT) home page
- Technologies Underlying Weapons of Mass Destruction, 1993 OTA publication ---(local copy)
- [short] History of Biological Warfare, from USAMRIID ---(local copy)
- Historical documents on CBW disarmament, from SIPRI, going back to 100 B.C.
- The Black Death
- 1918 Flu Pandemic
- The Influenza Pandemic of 1918, killed more than WW I, lowered ave. life span in U.S. by 10 years; accusations of bio-war and soldiers' symptoms due to gas attacks and trench conditions (shades of Gulf War Syndrome)
- 1918 Flu on PBS: countries accuse each other of biological warfare, vaccines ineffective
