CBRN

Interview with LTC Edoardo Cavalieri d’Oro

Head of CBRN Unit, Fire Department City of Milano, Italy Can you first describe your role and the organization you work for? I work for...

The EOD-CBRN Unit of the Spanish National Police

By Police Inspector José Manuel Navas Garcia, Chief, EOD-CBRN (TEDAX) Unit, Spanish National Police Background The origins of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Unit (Técnicos Especialistas...

Possible impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on CBRN Defence organisation in Europe

By COL. Henry Neumann, Former Commander, Bundeswehr CBRN Defence Command Much has been written about the COVID-19 pandemic to date: political assessments, medical appraisals, scientific...

The First NCT Webinar: COVID-19, Stories from the Frontline

By Elisa Morin, Consultant, IB Consultancy The CBRNe Society and IB Consultancy hosted their first NCT Talks on May 13th, gathering panelists from all over...

COVID-19, a Biological Weapon? A Guide to Biological Weapons to Answer that Question

By Ophélie Guillouet-Lamy, Analyst, IB Consultancy The ongoing Covid-19 crisis have pressed the international community to reflect about current and future biological threats. Subsequently, debates...

Peruvian First Response to Hazardous Biological Materials: COVID-19

By José Zea Aguero, Founder and President of the Chemical Information Center of Peru (CINQUI) If the COVID-19 crisis has proven something, it is that...

COVID-19: A Term that Became a Word in our Everyday Slang

An Emergency that started far away from us, but which quickly became ours. By Lt. Dr. Manuel Tamani, CBRN Manager, Emilia Romagna Region, Italian Red...

Reusable Respirators: The Unsung COVID-19 Heroes

By Jeremy Urekew, Hazmat Specialist with the FEMA Urban Search and Rescue system "We rely on clean air with a suitable oxygen concentration to keep...

Quo Vadis – Unprepared for the Next Pandemic?

By Guy B. Roberts, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, Biological Defense Programs The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed how people live and...

COVID-19 and Respiratory Protective Equipment (RPE): An Overview

By Elisa Morin, Consultant, IB Consultancy Of all the coronavirus-induce subjects, masks, their types, their use, their certifications might me the blurriest. Ever since the...

COVID-19 response and issues in Japan

By Dr. Yasuhiro Kanatani, MD, PhD COVID-19, a biological weapon? Anthrax, Ebola, Plague, Smallpox, and Botulinum are considered extremely high-risk pathogens to be used as biological...

A guide to COVID-19 Testing Methods

By Anna Paternnosto & Ophélie Guillouet-Lamy As the Covid-19 pandemic is spreading across the globe, the economic and social consequences of the crisis are becoming...

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