CBRN

CBW Defense on the “Circuit” 

By Kevin Cresswell Executive Protection (EP), Close Protection (CP), The “Circuit” or VIP Protection, however you term it, is not just concerned with conventional threats....

CBRNe Medical Countermeasures 2001 to Date – A Reflection 

By David Bates David Bates addresses how actors can counter an adversary’s desired effects through information manoeuvre, as well as traditional defensive methods by exploiting...

How the International Committee of the Red Cross Responds to Weapon Contamination

By Laurent Robert et co. The ICRC’s Weapon Contamination (WeC) Unit provides crucial assistance in areas where explosive weapons pose a significant threat. Conducting clearance activities...

MIRA and IBEX: Out of the Lab and into the Unknown

Securing dangerous sites is the ultimate goal in any sensitive site exploitation (SSE) directive. SSE missions include three main components: enter the site, assess the environment, and collect and identify materials, writes Metrohm.

908 Devices Launches Remote and Continuous Area Monitoring for Aerosol and Vapor Detection

The Boston-based chemical and biochemical analytics company 908 Devices has announced the launch of MX908 Beacon, a unique remote area monitoring system that can...

U.S. Department of Defense Selects Kaléo to Develop Next Generation Nerve Agent Countermeasure

Kaléo, a privately-held U.S. pharmaceutical company, announced in July that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has selected them to develop a Reconstitution Auto-Injector...

A UGV for Extreme CBRNe Situations – A Case Study

By Zvonko Orehovec Colonel (Ret.) Zvonko Orehovec, Chief Technical Expert at DOK-ING, talks about remotely controlled, unmanned ground-based vehicles (UGVs) that can be used in...

Civil Nuclear Security Risk in an Increasingly Unstable World 

By Dr. Paul Dorfman, Chair, Nuclear Consulting Group As the established nuclear order gradually breaks apart and co-operative security increasingly takes a back seat to...

Chemical Weapons: Nation-State Targets 

By Andy Oppenheimer, former editor, CBNW  How should we handle a nerve agent attack? Andy Oppenheimer looks back on the 2018 Novichok attacks in Salisbury...

CBRNe Incident – A Complex Crime Scene Part II

By Mr. Kevin Cresswell, Independent Consultant, USA  “CBRNe decision making will eventually need to balance mission focus and forensic integrity with political/social priorities and the...

Effective training in prevention, detection of CBRN crime and response to CBRN criminal incidents

Contaminated crime scene investigation ©ISEMI  By Dr. Marian Kolecnik, Founder, ISEMI, Slovakia While CBRN threats are mostly associated with terrorism, this threat represents only a fraction...

Bio surveillance: preparing for the next pandemic 

Wuhan Institute of Virology, Hubei province, China – the centre of the controversial theory that SARS-CoV-2 may have emerged from the research facility following...

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