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By Category: Biological Weapons

New WMD Response Center Planned in India

(Global Security Newswire) The Indian government has approved the establishment of a new education center in Panipat in Haryana state that will be used to prepare military personnel and civilians to respond to potential weapons of mass destruction attacks, the Press Trust of India reported on Thursday.

February 21, 2012
| Filed under South Asia, Biological Weapons, and Public Health
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US ‘very closely’ watching Syrian chemical weapons

(The Associated Press) US intelligence officials in the past have said Syria has conducted biological weapons-related research but have stopped short of saying the country had taken the next step and built bioweapons. The task of securing Syrian President Bashar Assad’s …

February 16, 2012
| Filed under Middle East, North America, Biological Weapons, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Anthrax Outbreak Shows U.K. Unprepared for Possible Attack: News Report

(Global Security Newswire) A 2009 outbreak of anthrax among heroin users in Glasgow, Scotland demonstrated that the United Kingdom is woefully unprepared to deal with a mass disease occurrence that might be caused by an act of biological terrorism, the British Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported last week. The United Kingdom at the time did Read More »

February 15, 2012
| Filed under Europe, Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism, and Public Health
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Veterans File for Class Certification in Chemical, Biological Weapon Case

(Salem-News.com) On behalf of two non-profits, Vietnam Veterans of America and Swords to Plowshares, and eight individual disabled veterans, Morrison & Foerster filed a petition for class certification in a more than two-year battle with the U.S. military over secret testing of chemical and biological weapons on its own soldiers. The plaintiffs, who are seeking Read More »

February 14, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biological Weapons, and Policy & Initiatives
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Bioterrorism Funding Withers As Death Germs Thrive In Labs, Nature

(Huffington Post) The overlap of bioterrorism agents and emerging infectious disease also means that officials could defend against biological attacks and natural outbreaks in tandem. Laura Kahn, a research scholar at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, recalls being “dumbstruck” when she made the realization. “It seemed like this Read More »