CBRN

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...

Editorial: CBRN Threats to the Food Chain

By Stephanie Meulenbelt, National Safety and Security Scientist, Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and Environment Introduction The food supply chain can be compromised by different...

“Finis coronat opus.”

Coronat Mask 2018: The Largest European CBRN Field Exercise By Anna Paternnosto, Head of Governmental Affairs, IB Consultancy Last month, Germany led CORONAT MASK 2018, a...

NCT Asia 2018

The leading CBRNe, C-IED and EOD event, NCT Asia 2018 was held in Hanoi, Vietnam in official partnership with the Military Medical Department of...

Remnants of Chaos

The Environmental and Public Health Aspects of War, Terrorism, and Disasters By Frank Rando CBRNE - Protective & Biomedical Countermeasures, University of Arizona In many acts...

Demining in the Balkans

By Sarah Huddleston, Analyst at IB Consultancy The Yugoslav Crises: A Brief Synopsis The Yugoslav Wars were the culmination of ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and...

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