CBRN

Fair Fax County Fire and Rescue Department Hazardous Materials Response Team

By Battalion Chief Martin Ranck The Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department (FCFRD) is a combination career and volunteer all-hazards department providing a full complement...

NCT South America 2019: Rio De Janeiro Post-Event Report

By Marlène Meunier, Consultant at IB Consultancy The sun sets on another amazing NCT Sur América! The second edition of the leading regional CBRNe, C-IED...

Fukushima: Thinking Back

By Dr. Andrew Karam Anniversaries are important dates. They mark the return of the Earth to its previous position against the firmament – the completion...

Radiological Terrorism: Mental and Physiological Health Effects

By Professor Natividad Carpintero-Santamaría, General Secretary of the Instituto de Fusión Nuclear "Guillermo Velarde" ETSII - UPM Department of Engineering - ETSII - UPM...

Interview with Mr. Douglas Bryce

Joint Program Executive Officer for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense, JPEO-CBRND, USA Mr. Douglas W. Bryce was designated the Joint Program Executive Officer for...

An Insider’s Perspective: Syria’s Calm Before the Storm

By Dr. Houssam Al-Nahhas, CBRN-TF Coordinator, Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations Introduction An outside observer can clearly see the effectiveness of the Russia-Turkey cease-fire...

Editorial by Mr. José Zea Agüero

Founder and President of the Chemical Information Center of Peru (CINQUI) In any management system related to safety, prevention and specialized response applied to an...

Interview with Brigadier General Basant K. Ponwar

Inspector General, Chhattisgarh police, Director, Counter Terrorism and Jungle Warfare College, India Brig. Gen. Basant K. Ponwar was commissioned by the Indian Army on 21...

CBRN: Little, Large, and All Deadly

Authored by Andy Oppenheimer, Independent Consultant Introduction The range of CBRN threats posed and attacks perpetrated by nation-states and terrorists is varied and often unexpected. The...

A Biological Potpourri: An Overview of Some Evolving Biohazardous Threat Agents and Global Health

By Frank Rando CBRNE - Protective and Biomedical Countermeasures, University of Arizona Collectively, infectious diseases have proven to be global scourges and the single most...

Case Study: A White Supremacist Dirty Bomb?

By Dr. Andrew Karam What Was Found In the summer of 2010, when I was working for the New York City Department of Health and Mental...

Interview with Colonel Alexandre Vasconcelos

Commander of the 1st CBRN Battalion, National Army, Brazil This month, the NCT Magazine Editorial Team sat down with Colonel Alexandre Marcos Carvalho de Vasconcelos...

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