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Everyone to whom I spoke gave the same story — the people in the city, the SS men, the concentration-camp inmates, foreign workers. All the camp knew it. All the civilian population knew it they complained about the stench of the burning bodies. Even among the Farben employees to whom I spoke, a lot of them would admit it. It would be utterly impossible not to know. [Pg.225]

U.S. civilian populations who may be contaminated by nuclear, biological, or chemical (NBC) agents. In a worst case terrorist, criminal, or accidental event, the CBIRF provides a standing, highly trained consequence management force tailored for short notice response to civilian victims of NBC materials or weapons of mass destruction. [Pg.207]

The last known naturally occurring case of smallpox occurred in Somalia in 1977. In May 1980, the World Health Assembly certified that the world was free of naturally occurring smallpox. By the 1960s, because of vaccination programs and quarantine regulations, the risk for importation of smallpox into the United States had been reduced. As a result, recommendations for routine smallpox vaccination were rescinded in 1971. In 1976, the recommendation for routine smallpox vaccination of health-care workers was also discontinued. In 1982, the only active licensed producer of vaccinia vaccine in the United States discontinued production for general use, and in 1983, distribution to the civilian population was discontinued. All military personnel continued to be vaccinated, but that practice ceased in 1990. Since January 1982, smallpox vaccination has not been required for international travelers, and International Certificates of Vaccination forms no longer include a space to record smallpox vaccination. [Pg.356]

This use of chemical weapons on a civilian population underscores the relative availability and ease of use of such weapons. It also raises both public and governmental consciousness. [Pg.46]

Any premeditated, unlawful act dangerous to human life or public welfare that is intended to intimidate or coerce civilian populations or governments. (White House 2006)... [Pg.24]

The unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a Government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives. (Federal Bureau of Investigation 1999)... [Pg.24]

The junior officers in the room have heard this before, but the final summation somehow jolts them. This will actually happen. It may bring the solution to a big problem. Until now, because they blend into the noncombatant civilian population, coalition troops could distinguish the terrorists only by the rifles and rocket launchers they carry. [Pg.383]

The term terrorism, according to HSA, Sect. 4(15), is defined as any activity that — (A) involves an act that — (i) is dangerous to human life or potentially destructive of critical infrastructure or key resources and (ii) is a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State or other subdivision of the United States and (B) appears to be intended — (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population (ii) to influence the policy or a government by intimidation or coercion or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping. [Pg.265]

Abstract This review describes the use of bacteriophages against bacterial infections in the battlefield and protection of the civilian population. High therapeutic and protective potential of bacteriophages suggests that they could be an efficient means against bio-terrorist attacks. [Pg.125]

In 2001, 2003, and 2005, CDC published the First, Second, and Third Reports on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals. Those landmark publications reported the concentrations of chemicals and metabolites in blood and urine of a representative sample of the U.S. civilian population from NHANES, with the first report detailing 27 chemicals and the second and third 116 and 148 chemicals, respectively. [Pg.42]

Designed to study a probability sample of the noninstitutionalized civilian population of the United States, NHANES also conducted nutritional assessment of three high-risk populations preschool children (6 months to 5 years old), those 60-74 years old, and the poor (persons below the poverty level) (NRC 1991). Each year, the current NHANES samples 5,000 persons, representative of the U.S. civilian household population, in 15 geographic locations. There is also an effort to oversample some demographic groups, including blacks and Mexican Americans (Schober 2005). [Pg.73]

Professor Dr. F. Konrich was completely justified in stating, in his publication About sanitation facilities of German POW camps 103 that epidemics such as those in question [...] had long been extinct here [in Germany]. However, it also becomes quite understandable why all of the offices and institutions involved over-reacted when epidemic typhus broke out in the Auschwitz concentration camp in early July 1942.104 The outbreak was traced to the civilian laborers brought in to work in the camp, rather than to inmates deported to Auschwitz. Also, due to drastic measures taken to isolate and eradicate this epidemic, its spreading to the camp s nearby civilian population could be prevented. [Pg.60]

Men in positions of authority, accustomed to decision-making, and faced with a dangerous epidemic capable of spreading to the civilian population with incalculable consequences, will always take suitable... [Pg.69]

There were probably no better-equipped forces in respect of anti-gas defence than those of the United Kingdom in the late 1930s. Britain had emerged from the First World War with a primitive respirator and basic techniques for gas-proofing dugouts, and little else. At the end of the 1930s, superior-quality anti-gas equipment was available to the armed forces to cater for all known hazards and a cheap, but efficient, respirator had also been developed for the civilian population.48 However, as far as offensive capabilities were concerned, investment had been limited and production had been minimal in terms of agents and weapons due to political unease and uncertainties. By 1938 the international situation was such that offensive research and development and the production of war reserve stocks of mustard gas were authorised by the British Cabinet, albeit that it was realised that a useful production output could not be obtained for at least 12-18 months. [Pg.54]

It is precisely in this second section, where the dangers due to the leakage of sulphuric acid and associated oxides require a special mitigation system, which is intended to avoid toxic cloud formation and its consequent effect on the surrounding civilian population. For example, in October 2008, a leak of concentrated sulphuric acid, at the Indspec Chemical Corporation, caused the evacuation of more than 2 500 people in Pennsylvania, United States (Associated Press, 2008). [Pg.398]

DDT is available and used in different formulations (e.g., aerosols, dustable powders, emulsifiable concentrates, granules, wettable powders). It is used mainly to control mosquito-borne malaria. Its use on crops has decreased because of its persistent residues. DDT was extensively used during World War II among Allied troops and certain civilian populations to control insect typhus and malaria vectors, and was extensively used as an agricultural insecticide after 1945. DDT was banned for use in Sweden in 1970 and in the United States in 1972. In view of its large-scale use over the decades, many insect pests may have developed... [Pg.107]

Lanman BM, Elvers WB, Howard CS (1968) The role of human patch testing in a product development program. Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Cosmetic Sciences. The Toilet Goods Association, Washington, DC, pp 135-145 Rapaport M, Anderson D, Pierce U (1978) Performance of the 21-day patch test in civilian populations. J Toxicol Cut Ocular Toxicol 1 109-115... [Pg.382]

As for the vehicles of Group D, I had them camouflaged as cabin trailers by putting on them little windows, one on every side of the small vans and two on every side of the big ones, like windows which are seen on peasant houses. But the vehicles were so well known that not only the authorities, but also the civilian population, called them Death Vans . My opinion is that we shall not be able to keep this camouflage secret a very long time. [Pg.223]

Before the Second World War, there were practically no problems with lice or fleas among the civilian population of the German Reich proper. But the situation was very different beyond the eastern border of the Reich, for example in Poland, where as we know the German Wehrmacht advanced in late summer 1939. Interested persons should ask soldiers about this who were there in 1939. [Pg.324]

On July 1, 1942, a sergeant from the gendarmerie of Auschwitz arrived and closed off the construction firms civilian laborers camp due to spotted fever.80 As the voluminous correspondence in our archives confirms, this event threw all involved offices and authorities from the state, the Wehrmacht and the SS into an uproar. It was deemed possible that the epidemic could spread to the camp and the civilian population, with immeasurable consequences for, among other things, the numerous armaments factories in Silesia. The files at hand from the RGVA prove in all clarity that the subsequent re-designing of the Birkenau camp and most of all the elaboration of the crematoria was a consequence of this spotted fever epidemic. [Pg.326]


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