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ACDA
The mission of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency is to strengthen the national security of the United States by formulating,
advocating, negotiating, implementing and verifying effective arms control,
non-proliferation, and disarmament policies, strategies, and agreements.
AFRRI
A triservice laboratory chartered in 1961, conducts research
in the field of radiobiology and related matters essential to the operational
and medical support of the U.S. Department of Defense and the military
services. The institute collaborates with other governmental facilities,
academic institutions, and civilian laboratories in the United States and
other countries. Its findings have broad military and civilian applications.
A
Selection of Web Sites on Biological and Chemical Weapons
compiled by the Washington, DC Office of the Center for
Nonproliferation Studies, September 1997.
Army
Medical Department - (AMEDD)
The overview provides a quick summary of the mission,
organization, activities and accomplishments
of the Army Medical Department (AMEDD).
Beyond Verexa
Legally Binding Compliance Regime for the Biological and Toxin Weapons
Convention
Report of The Federation of American Scientists Working
Group on Biological and Toxin Weapons Verification, July 1994.
Biological
Integrated Detection System (BIDS)
home page.
Biological
Pathogens
This table lists many biological pathogens of interest.
They are listed by type. The names of pathogens are linked to a search
engine; if you click on a pathogen name you will get the results of a search
of the World Wide Web.
Biological
Treaty Team
The mission of the Biological Treaty Team is to ensure
that Army Medical Readiness and
Material Command (AMC) installations/activities affected
by Biological treaties are prepared to comply with provisions of
any biological warfare treaty/agreement which has been ratified/approved
by the U.S.
Government.
Biological
Weapons Detection Focus Group
The Biological Weapons Detection Focus Group objectives
are to identify national BW-related needs and requirements, to identify
technologies and programs currently being developed or applied, to identify
technology areas and programs that could support national BW defense related
needs, to identify gaps and overlaps among programs, and to provide information
and recommendations to the senior decision makers.
Biosensors
& Bioelectronics web page
It is the principal international journal devoted to
research, design, development and application of
biosensors and bioelectronics.
Biosensors
Team, US Army, Edgewood Research, Development and Engineering Center
The Biosensors Team is the Army Focal Point for the Research,
Development and Quality Testing of immunochemical and DNA based biosensors.
The mission involves basic and applied research into methods of detection
and identification of biological threat agents on the battlefield.
Bioterrorism
Special Report
All fall down, New Scientist, May 11, 1996
Bradford
Project on Strengthening the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford,
UK. This web site to aims to provide a better means of spreading information
on the process of strengthening the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
worldwide.
Center
for Counter Proliferation and Research
The Center for Counter Proliferation Research
(CCP), hosted by INSS, was founded to explore the range of political-military
issues relevant to the proliferation of nuclear, biological,
and chemical weapons, collectively known as weapons of mass destruction.
Chemical
and Biological Agents
The following information is made available as a public
service by Outbreak and ProMED, the Program
for Monitoring Emerging Diseases. Outbreak is a new on-line
service dedicated to providing information about emerging
diseases. ProMED is a project of the Federation of
American Scientists, which has a long
history of battling against the production and use of
weapons of mass destruction.
Chemical and
Biological Defense Information Analysis Center
The CBIAC, operated by Battelle Memorial Institute, is
a full service Department of Defense (DoD) Information Analysis Center
(IAC) under contract to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and
administratively managed by the Defense Technical Information
Center (DTIC) under the DoD IAC Program Office (Contract No. SPO900-94-D-0002).
The CBIAC serves as the focal point for Chemical and Biological
Defense (CW/CBD)
Chemical/Biological
Incident Response Force
The CBIRF is a strategic organization - manned, trained
and equipped to counter the growing chemical/biological terrorist threat.
Chemical and Biological
Weapons Nonproliferation Project
© 1996 Henry L. Stimson Center Chemical and biological
weapons have proliferated more widely than nuclear weapons, in part because
the behavioral norms against chemical and biological weapons are not as
robust as those against nuclear weapons, and partly because biological
and chemical weapons are more easily acquired.
Chemical,
Biological, and Nuclear Terrorism/Warfare-A Bibliography
Dudley Knox Library, naval Postgraduate School.
Chemical
Corps Vision NBC Management Program
The Chemical Corps Vision for the 21st Century is a trained
and ready force with the capabilities to protect the nation and its forces
against NBC threats and to employ NBC defense and smoke/obscurants to protect
the force, shape the battlespace, and disrupt enemy operations.
CP/CBD
CP/CBD Web is the internet point-of-contact for United
States Department of Defense Counterproliferation and Chemical Biological
Defense Information.
Defense
Against Toxin Weapons
David R. Franz, DVM, PhD, Colonel, Veterinary Corps,
United States Army
DefenseLINK
The official web site for the Department of Defense and
the starting point for finding U.S. military
information online.
The Defense Special Weapons
Agency (DSWA)
Serves as the Department of Defense's (DoD) center for
nuclear and advanced weapons effects expertise. The Agency's mission is
to research and develop technologies to support military systems and satisfy
operational requirements.
Department
of Defense Report to Congress
Volume I, Domestic Preparedness Program, Defense Against
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Domestic
Preparedness Web Site
The Domestic Preparedness initiative was formed under
FY 1997 Defense Authorization Bill (Public Law 104-201, September 23, 1996),
commonly called the Nunn-Lugar-Domenici legislation. The bill provides
funding for the Department of Defense (DOD) to enhance the capability of
federal, state and local emergency responders in incidents involving nuclear,
biological and chemical terrorism.
Defense
Sciences Office (DSO)
The most diverse office within DARPA not only in mission
but in character. Unlike the "systems" offices and the other "technology"
offices, each of which has a defined area of concentration and expertise,
DSO is designed to be the technological conscience of DARPA.
Emergency
Response to Chemical/Biological Terrorist Incidents
By Clark L. Staten, Executive Director, Emergency Response
& Research Institute
08/07/97
Edgewood
Research, Development and Engineering Center (ERDEC)
The Edgewood Center is the Army's principal R&D center
for chemical and biological defense technology, engineering, and service.
Foreign
Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 65 - Control and elimination of chemical and
biological weapons
The Harvard
Sussex program on CBW Armament and Arms Limitation (HSP)
An international collaborative program of research and
communication to promote the global elimination
of chemical and biological weapons and to strengthen
the constraints against hostile uses of biomedical technologies.
Jim
Placke's NBC Links Homepage
The purpose of this page is to provide easy access to
information related to nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) warfare,
NBC defense, and domestic preparedness. The primary focus is to provide
a gateway to the numerous sources of information located
on the web.
Medical
Defense Against Biological Warfare Agents Course
USAMRIID
NBC Industry
Group
To provide information on nuclear, biological, and chemical
(NBC) civil and military matters to the U.S. Armed Forces, other appropriate
agencies of the United States, and the general public.
NBC Medical Defense Information Server Library
The OPCW Home Page
At this website the Technical Secretariat of the Organization
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
provides information on the Chemical Weapons Convention
but also on other issues relating to toxic
chemicals and chemical protection.
Perspectives
on Biological Warfare and Terrorism
Abstracts of articles in August 6 1997 issue of JAMA
(Journal of the American Medical
Association)
Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization
"Putting
Teeth in the Biological Weapons Ban."
Article in the January/February 1998 issue of Technology
Review.
"The
Specter of Biological Weapons"
Scientific American, December 1996.
A Strengthened
Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC)
Potential Implications for Biotechnology Conference.
International information and discussion forum
on the potential implications for biotechnology R&D
and production of the legally binding protocol being negotiated to strengthen
the BTWC, 28. - 29. May 1998, Institute of Applied Microbiology, Vienna,
Austria.
The
Threat of Chemical/Biological Terrorism
Commentary No. 60, A Canadian security intelligence service
publication, August 1995
U.S. Army
Chemical and Biological Defense Command (CBDCOM)
Provide research, development and acquisition for nuclear,
biological and chemical and obscurant equipment for U.S. forces; act as
the Army nuclear, biological, and chemical defense commodity command;
provide management of joint service nuclear, biological and chemical defense
materiel; provide U.S. stockpile management and safe storage; provide installation
management; prepare for, and respond to chemical and biological emergency
events / accidents; provide weapons of mass destruction (chemical or biological)
domestic preparedness support; conduct emergency remediation / restoration
actions at chemical sites; provide successful planning, management, and
execution of treaty responsibilities; and provide demilitarization support.
U.S.
Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious
Diseases (USAMRIID) conducts research to develop strategies, products,
information, procedures, and training programs for medical defense against
biological warfare threats and naturally occurring infectious diseases
that require special containment.
U.S. Army Medical
Research and Materiel Command.
The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
is a major subordinate command of the Army Medical Command (MEDCOM), responsible
for life cycle management of medical materiel, from basic laboratory research
through advanced development, prototyping, procurement, delivery to units,
maintenance and disposal.
Working
Paper of the Legal Subgroup on the Protection of Confidential Information
In the Proposed
Protocol
to the Biological Weapons Convention
January 1998.
http//www.boku.ac.at/iam/efb/btwcabst.htm
http//www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/4840/enter.html
A site devoted to informing
the public on the effects of Biological Warfare and
its impact on the world.