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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"biological weapons"”.
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Biological Weapons and Terrorism
… examples of terrorists desiring or achieving a biological weapons capability. The second part of the thesis aims to understand the effects of the biotechnology revolution on biological weapons programs. The final chapter uses this analysis to assess terrorists' interest in a biological weapon …
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Deadly Science: Biological Weapons and the Threat to America
… an all-time high. The potential terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction has become a reality. The danger posed by biological weapons is real and the consequences of such an attack against America would be severe. This project is intended to provide valuable insight into biological weapons and …
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Bugs Dividing: The Impact of Synthetic Biology on the Proliferation of Biological Weapons
… facing the United States is the possible use of biological weapons by a near-peer state, rogue nation or terrorist organization. Currently there are an increasing number of pathogens suitable for biological weapons. This threat has increased due to the rapid advances made world wide in the field …
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Pathogens as weapons : the international security implications of biological warfare
… the international security implications of biological weapons and the strategic consequences of their proliferation. It examines the impact of biological weapons on four key areas of concern for international security: proliferation, deterrence, civil-military relations, and threat …
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Plagues, paranoia, and Cold War blowback: The continuing national security risk of the Soviet-United States biological arms race
The Cold War biological arms race is a site of contention within the geopolitical landscape under the theories of containment and mutually assured destruction. Rapid proliferation of biological weapons creates instability within the construction of biosecurity and is further complicated by the …
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Maximum containment : the most controversial labs in the world
… for emerging infectious diseases, potential biological weapons, and to contribute to the nation's biodefense. These labs were not the first dramatic reaction to the threat of biowarfare and are in fact, one product of a long history of the country's contentious relationship with biological …
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The Bioterrorist Threat to the United States and Israel
Biological terrorism does not seem like a particularly prevalent or realistic threat, considering that an attack of this nature has never taken place against the United States. It is, to be sure, a threat rarely considered by policy analysts and the general population alike. Biological weapons do …
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A Review of the Government Sponsored Offensive Biological Programs, Weaponized Biological Pathogens and their Countermeasures
… and the rifle by the machine gun. The use of biological weapons (bioweapons) took the same leap forward from medics fighting battlefield illness to strategic weapons of mass destruction. The two largest research programs, the Soviet and United States of America (US), operated for decades at …
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ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS OF THE USE OF INVESTIGATIONAL NEW DRUGS DURING THE GULF WAR
… the Gulf War in 1992, the threat of chemical and biological weapons prompted the Department of Defense to seek a waiver from the Food and Drug Administration to use the investigational new drugs pyridostigmine bromide and botulism vaccine without first obtaining consent from those servicemen and …
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The Future Military Applications and International Security Implications of Biotechnology and Nanotechnology
… and nanotechnology. Research into the biological sciences is presented as a backdrop to the field of biotechnology. Biotechnology, the amalgamation of genetic engineering and gene-based therapeutics, may provide tools of warfare that could create security challenges of their own as …
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Iran's Ground Forces: Significance and Implications
… missiles, ballistic missiles, chemical and biological weapons, and possibly nuclear weapons. In most analyses of the arms buildup the ground forces have either been neglected or have been considered not a threat. This thesis examines the Iranian ground forces and their modernization, and …
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Optical combustion measurements of novel energetic materials in a heterogeneous shock tube
… use in explosives designed for the defeat of biological weaponry. The Ti-B system is a highly energetic compound as energy can be released due to the oxidation of either metal constituent or the intermetallic reaction producing TiB2. It is capable of generating long lasting high temperature …
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Surface Characteristics of Bacillus Spores
… because anthrax spores can be used as biological weapons. The hydrophobic nature of spores may allow for their rapid concentration and partial purification from contaminating materials. In this study, spores from four taxonomic groups of Bacillaceae were isolated, purified and …
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Creating Genetic Engineering Tools for Investigating Bacillus anthracis.
… understood. <em>B. anthracis</em> is one of many biological weapons used today. A -/- mutant strain of <em>B. anthracis</em> that lacks the pathogenic plasmids was created by serial culture at 42°C. Key DNA replication genes were identified by homology as targets. The <em>dnaB</em> gene, essential …
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Optofluidic microchip for biomedical and chemical sensing
… detection of pathogens, infectious diseases, or biological weapons in a sample of a person’s blood. These microchips could bring the capabilities of an entire medical laboratory to the places they are most desirable ‒ the developing world, the battlefield, and the home ‒ and where they could …
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Biological War Against Agriculture and the Threat of Agricultural Bioterrorism
… someone intentionally targeting agriculture with biological agents as a form of warfare. There are many animal and plant diseases that could be used to target American agriculture. Over the course of history, biological agents have been used to attack agriculture several times. States that have …
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Dual-Use Science and Bioethics: Governance of Biotechnology in Post-Soviet Russia
… authoritarian rule and intense development of biological weapons in combination with the continuing scientific and technological prowess of Russia is a governance challenge, unprecedented in its nature and scale. The aim of the dissertation therefore is to examine to what extent and by what …
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Education and Security: Design and Evaluation Tools for Deliberate Disease Risks Mitigation
… the risks of deliberate disease, including biological weapons. Specifically, it aims to analyse how education was constructed as a potential instrument to mitigate specific security risks; if and how education could impact on risks; and how effectiveness of education as a risk mitigation …
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Modeling and control of quartz crystal operated in liquid for bio-sensing application
… of compounds ranging from pesticides to biological weapons. Typically, biosensors consist of a biological macromolecule that is immobilized on the surface of a signal transducer. As the macromolecule binds specifically to the ligand being detected, the signal transducer can measure a …
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Evaluation of environmental materials as thermal witness materials
… for applications such as neutralization of biological weapons, bunker busters and many others. To guide the development of hybrid materials, the pyrotechnical environment they produce requires higher degree of characterization i.e. good description of spatial and temporal temperature …
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