CBRN

By Talgat Toleubayev UNICRI's Regional Coordinator for South East and Eastern Europe, Talgat Toleubayev, discusses current challenges in prosecuting CBRN crimes and introduces the Prosecutor's Guides to Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear crimes. The EU CBRN Centre of...
By Colonel H R Naidu Gade With a history of serious chemical accidents and a population vulnerable to biological disasters, India has in the past few years implemented comprehensive reforms of its CBRN disaster management preparedness, writes...

Pascale Ferrier and the Threat of Bioterror 

By Markus K. Binder Drawing upon the START CBRN Data Suite and other research, Markus Binder considers the five ricin bio-attacks directed at the U.S....

Smoke Alarms, Zaporizhzhia, Litvinenko: RDDs are not Always Explosive

By Andy Oppenheimer Andy Oppenheimer investigates the threat from radiological dispersal events by terrorists and nation states.   Despite the fact that the definition of a radiological...

M2DCON – Threatcasting to Maintain Critical Operability

By Kevin Cresswell “It doesn’t matter how smart, high-tech and critical to the mission an item is, if it's contaminated, it’s out of play until...

Revolutionizing Biological Threat Detection: The pBDi BioDetector 

By AIRSENSE Analytics AIRSENSE Analytics introduces the pBDi BioDetector, a portable instrument that can detect toxins, bacteria and viruses on-site in only 20-25 minutes. In a...

For a Metaverse of CBRN Training 

By Yves Kovalevsky Yves Kovalevsky discusses the growing importance and potential of virtual CBRN training solutions and introduces ERTC and NBC-Sys' ViRTTER program.  Today, the word...

Protecting Europe from the Next Health Threats 

By Laurent Muschel With the COVID-19 pandemic officially declared over, health emergencies could once again seem like a minor worry for EU defense. Yet as...

Denmark: CBRNe Foundations, Exercises, and Incidents 

By Alessia Nobile Defense and Security Analyst at NCT Consultants Alessia Nobile discusses Denmark’s CBRNe preparedness, international cooperation, and the country’s COVID-19 mink crisis. As the...

The Not-So-Friendly Atom: An Overview of Radiological and Nuclear Consequence Management 

By Frank G. Rando Since the discovery of radium by Marie Curie and her husband Pierre, there has been a mystique and fears surrounding nuclear...

The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine: Counteracting CBRN Threats in the Face of Russian Aggression 

By Colonel Roman Yuriev Colonel Roman Yuriev discusses the work of the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service in protecting the country against emerging CBRN threats...

CBRN Threat Detection in Naval Warfare

By Arto Penttinen Arto Penttinen discusses the importance of naval CBRN threat detection and introduces Bertin Environics’ new X-System CBRN monitoring solution. Threats related to chemical,...

COVID-19 Update: Variants, Vaccines, and Winter Illnesses 

By COL (Ret.) Zygmunt F. Dembek Epidemiologist and biochemist COL (Ret.) Zygmunt F. Dembek gives an update on the global COVID-19 situation, emerging variants, persisting...

Fukushima Water Discharge: The Science Behind the Decision 

By Dr. Makoto Akashi At the end of August 2023, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant began a 30-year process to release more than one...

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