Managing Chemical and Biological Agents

Abstract

Though the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) prohibits the development production and stockpiling of biological and toxin weapons, during the war in Croatian we saw unknown artificial materials, which appeared to be like spider cobwebs. We expect that during the peace time domestic and international acts of terrorism may use chemical and biological pathogens with such an ideal delivery device as the cobweb with their polyvalent characteristics. Today the terrorists use very sophisticate chemical and biological weapons and such as anthrax, sarin or cyanides. In our approach we review delivery device and packaging of biological agents, and we address the technical difficulties in maintaining chemical and biological agents.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADP013440

Entities

People

  • A. Vucemilovic
  • K. Furic
  • M. Hadzija
  • M. Petranovic
  • S. Pepeljnjak

Organizations

  • Ruđer Bošković Institute

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arms Control Treaties
  • Biological Factors
  • Biological Weapons
  • Congress
  • Health Services
  • Technical Information Centers
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • Therapy
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Environmental Engineering.
  • Microbial Pathology
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering