Chemical-biological warfare

Trapp, R. The Detoxification and Natural Degradation of Chemical Warfare Agents. Volume 3 of SIPRI Chemical Biological Warfare Studies. London Taylor Francis, 1985. 

Despite ricin s extreme toxicity and utility as an agent of chemical/biological warfare, it is extremely difficult to limit the production of the toxin. Therefore, ricin is currently monitored as a Schedule 1 toxic chemical under the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,... 

Thomas, A. (1985). Effects of chemical warfare a selective review and bibliography of British state papers. In SIPRI Chemical Biological Warfare Studies No. I, pp. 1, 20, 22. Taylor Francis, Philadelphia, PA. 

Lindem KH, White RF, Proctor SP et al. (2003). Neuropsychological Performance in Gulf War Era Veterans Traumatic Stress Symptomatology and Exposure to Chemical-Biological Warfare Agents. J Psychopathol Behav Assess, 25, 105-119. 

King CR. A Review of Chemical/Biological Warfare During World War I. Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md 1979. AMSAA-TOAO Interim Note T-18. 

The chemical-biological warfare threat can come in three possible physical forms gas, liquid, and aerosol (ie, a suspension in air of liquid or solid particles). Protection against chemical agents disseminated as aerosols is especially difficult because the individual particles deliver a large amount of agent at a tiny site, thereby overwhelming the local capacity of the adsorbent. 

Fig. 16-34. The litter-patient airlock of the Chemical and Biological Protected Shelter. Treating casualties on a chemical-biological warfare battleground requires complicated procedures, even to get the casualty into a protected environment for examination. Special air locks for casualties and new procedures had to be developed. Photograph Courtesy of Chemical and Biological Defense Command Historical Research and Response Team, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.

Harruff RC. Chemical-biological warfare in Asia. JAMA. 1983 250(4) 497-498. 

Douglass JD Jr, Livingston NC. America the Vulnerable The Threat of Chemical/Biological Warfare. Lexington, Mass DC Heath 1987. 

Zanders JP (1997) The destruction of old chemical munitions in Belgiirm. In Stock T, Lohs K (eds) The challenge of old chemical mimitions rmd toxic armament wastes, SIPRI Chemical Biological Warfare Studies No. 16. Oxford University Press, Oxford, p 197 Zanders JP (2002) The Chemical Weapons Convention and imiversality. Disarmament Forum 2002(4) 23... 

Robinson, J. P. Perry and Trapp, R., Production and chemistry of mustard gas, in J. Lundin, (ed.). Verification of Dual-use Chemicals under the Chemical Weapons Convention The Case of Thiodiglycol, SIPRI Chemical Biological Warfare Studies, no. 13, SIPRI, (Oxford University Press 1991), p. 11. 

Countering the Chemical and Biological Weapons Threat in the Post-Soviet World, pp.66-7 Harris, Chemical Weapons Proliferation Current Capabilities and Prospects for Control , pp.288-9 Roberts, Chemical Disarmament and International Security , p.43 Welch, The Growing Global Menace of Chemical Biological Warfare , p.23. 

DOUGLASS, Jr., J.D. and LUKENS, H., The Expanding Arena of Chemical-Biological Warfare , Strategic Review, vol.l2, no.4. Fall 1984. 

WELCH, T.J., The Growing Menace of Chemical Biological Warfare , Defense 89, July/August 1989. 

Committee on Foreign Affairs. Chemical-Biological Warfare US Policies and International Effects. Hearings before the Subcommittee on National Security Policy and Scientific Developments. 91st Congress, first session. 18,20 November, 2,9,18,19 December 1969. 

Stock T, Lohs K (1997) The challenge of old chemical munitions and toxic armament wastes, SIPRI chemical biological warfare studies no. 16. Oxford University Press, Oxford... 

Defense and Chemical/biological protection. Chemical/biological warfare... 

Mark Wheelis, Biological Warfare Before 1914, in Erhard Geissler and John Ellis van Courtland Moon, eds.. Biological and Toxin Weapons Research, Development and Use from the Middle Ages to 1945, SIPRI Chemical Biological Warfare Studies, No. 18 (Oxford Oxford University Press 1999) p. 14. 

The military has designed a futuristic soldier protective suit that would provide various functionalities such as artificial muscles, vision enhancement, chemical/biological warfare agent protection, and temperature modulation. What strategy(ies) would you use to provide long-term electrical power to this suit, other than battery power Note that the first missions to use this suit will be in the caves of Afghanistan. 

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