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Qadhafi May Use Chem, Bio Weapons on Protesters, Ex-Minister Warns

Former Libyan Justice Minister Mustafa Abdel Galil warned yesterday that besieged dictator Muammar Qadhafi could use chemical and biological weapons against opposition forces in a last ditch effort to retain control of his regime, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported. “At the end when he’s really pressured, he can do anything,” Galil said to al-Jazeera. “I think Qadhafi Read More »

February 25, 2011
| Filed under Middle East, Biological Weapons, and Bioterrorism
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Pentagon Looks to Africa for Next Bio Threat

The Pentagon agency charged with protecting the United States from weapons of mass destruction is looking to the insecure storage of pathogens at clinics in Africa as the next flashing red light for a potential biological outbreak. Kenneth Myers, the director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, joined his old boss, Sen. Richard Lugar, on Read More »

February 25, 2011
| Filed under Africa, North America, and Biological Weapons
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Parts of the Sum: Unpacking the Dynamics of Biological Weapons Proliferation

The proliferation potential of biological weapons is an exceedingly complex topic, only made more complicated by semantic inconsistencies. For example, the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC), considered to be the cornerstone of the global biological weapons nonproliferation regime, has been variously termed an arms control, disarmament, and nonproliferation treaty.

February 22, 2011
| Filed under North America and Biological Weapons
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The New Virology by David E. Hoffman

Largely unseen by the world, two dangerous germs homed in on their targets in the spring and early summer of 2009. One was made by man to infect computers. The other was made by nature, and could infect man. The man-made virus could invade a computer running Windows, replicate itself, wreck an industrial process, hide Read More »

February 21, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biological Weapons, and Bioterrorism
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Napolitano Requests $57B For Homeland Security

The U.S. Homeland Security Department is seeking $57 billion in funding for the upcoming fiscal year for programs that include a monitoring system for potential bioterrorism threats and acquisition of additional radiation detectors to safeguard population centers against a potential nuclear attack (see GSN, Feb. 10). “Today’s threat picture features an adversary who evolves and Read More »