CBRN

How to Reduce the Risk of Radiological Dirty Bombs

By Jacob Kamen Ph.D., DABHP, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA Abstract While the CBRN community including civil and military first...

Editorial by IB Consultancy and the CBRNe Society: Closing 2020 and Kickstarting 2021!

The year 2020 has been a challenging one for the entire CBRNe, C-IED and EOD community. Our year has been very different from what...

CBRN Exercise at the National Training Center (NTC) in Vught, The Netherlands

By Sgt. Calvin Deinum, Platoon Sergeant of the multifunctional CBRN platoon of the 11th Armored Engineer Battalion form Wezep, The Netherlands Introduction My name is Calvin...

More Than Wishful Thinking: Training and Scenario Play for Future Crisis Events

By PhD. Greg Simons, Associate Professor, University of Uppsala, Sweden Preparing for future crisis events through scenarios and training, including the practice in role play...

Center’s Mobile Lab Expertise Enables Readiness

A CCDC Chemical Biological Center team of specialists customized, transported, and operated a mobile laboratory to test more than 3,000 Soldiers for COVID-19 at...

Post Event Report

NCT Virtual Asia took place on November 12 and 13, in partnership with the ASEAN Regional Mine Action Center (ARMAC). Created with the objective...

Joint Task Force Civil Support: Supporting the Civil Authorities in the Event of a CBRN Incident Anywhere in the United States

NAVAL SUPPORT FACILITY INDIAN HEAD, Md (Nov. 12 2020) U.S. Army Lt. Col. Tiffany Dills, assigned to Joint Task Force Ciil Support, breaks through...

Trainings, Modeling & Simulation Exercises, and International Cooperation are Critical Elements for CBRN/CWMD Futures

By BG (Ret.) William King, Former Commander, 20th CBRNE Command, U.S. Army, USA During the next five years, we will face complex challenges, including coordinating...

COVID-19: Are the Statistics Telling us Anything?

By Ophélie Guillouet-Lamy, Consultant at IB Consultancy Ever since the start of this pandemic, scientists, researchers but also polling organizations and media have tried to...

How to Prepare for Something that Rarely Happens, like a Nuclear Incident?

By Mr. Thorsten Hackl, Advisor Incident Response, Central and West Brabant Fire Department, The Netherlands This is the difficult question to answer when looking at...

The Mobile Radiological Intervention Unit (CMIR) in France

By Col. Denis Giordan, Deputy Director of the Savoie Fire Department General Points The radiological units, created in 1980, are teams of 7 firemen able to...

Infection with Novel Corona Virus and Radionuclide Contamination

Dr. Makoto Akashi Professor, Faculty and Postgraduate School of Nursing Tokyo Healthcare University Since the start of the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused...

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