Scientist support for biological weapons controls.

بیوتروریسم و جنگ‌افزارهای بیولوژیک، از گذشته تا به امروز: یک مطالعه مروری کلاسیک

Bioterrorism is defined as any terrorist action of intentional release or dissemination of highly pathogenic biological agents, including a variety of microorganisms or biological toxins. With the growing threat of terrorism, is necessary that the potential danger of various microorganisms – as a powerful tool of aggression and threat- to be taken seriously. This review tries to explain the ...

Decision support system (DSS) for site selection floodwater spreading schemes using remote sensing (RS) and geographical information systems (GIS)

Acquisition Reform and the Evolution of the U.s. Weapons Market Overview: Weapons Market vs. Commercial Market Structure

The modern U.S. “market” for weapons and weapon systems has two dominating features. First, it is characterized by a single buyer, DoD, which defines the product and controls the sales opportunities of weapon system providers.2 Unlike most commercial product markets, the weapons market is centralized, historically driven by the detailed performance and technical requirements provided by DoD.3 E...

Beefing up the bioweapons treaty

Alongside support for renewed funding for microbiological research, many scientists are also backing a greater role for international agreements to control potential biological weapons. But such efforts present considerable challenges. One of Britain's leading microbiologists, Hugh Pennington at Aberdeen University, has written of the ease of obtaining agents such as anthrax. " In principle any...

Science and prohibited weapons.

T his year, on 17 June, the Geneva Protocol, an international treaty prohibiting the use of asphyxiating or poisonous gases and bacteriological methods of warfare, turned 80 years of age. It was fostered in part by a 1918 appeal in which the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) described the use of poisonous gas against soldiers as a " barbarous invention which science is bringing to...