Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using weapons of mass destruction in the form of
chemical and biological warfare from the perspective of the user.
The exports continued to at least November 28, 1989, despite evidence that Iraq was engaging in
chemical and biological warfare against Iranians and Kurds since as early as 1984.
Ironically, when Senator Riegle first approached officials at the Department of Defense about veterans' possible exposures to
chemical and biological warfare agents in the Persian Gulf, he was told by Walter Reed Army Medical Center commander Major General Ronald Blank that the issue was not even explored because "military intelligence maintained that such exposures never occurred.
The NeutroScan technology is being developed for commercial detection of explosives,
chemical and biological warfare agents, illegal drugs, environmental pollutants, and radioactive material used to make "dirty bombs".
patent (6,569,353) for a gel-based formulation capable of decontaminating both
chemical and biological warfare agents.
Researchers in industry, government and academia are applying microfluidic technologies for use in food process controls, protein separation, drug development, diagnostics, environmental monitoring and
chemical and biological warfare agent detection.
Smiths Detection provides systems to detect
chemical and biological warfare agents, explosives and drugs to the military, transportation and facility security markets.
He served as a military physician in the IDF dealing with
chemical and biological warfare.
The recently formed division includes Graseby, with its
chemical and biological warfare agent detection capability, Barringer Instruments (now Smiths Detection Warren) with their expertise in trace explosive and narcotics detection and Environmental Technologies Group (Now Smiths Detection Edgewood) with their expertise in artillery meteorology and biological warfare agent detection.
The focus of the grants was aimed at developing an ultrasensitive hand-held biochip system for detecting the deployment of
chemical and biological warfare agents.
