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Technologies that make a difference
in CB defense
Summarized by Dr. Jan Medema
Study Director NATO Long Term Scientific Study
(LTSS) *
From
27 January to 1 February the Multi-National Exercise of the NATO
Long Term Scientific Study on CB Defence took place at the TNO
Prins Maurits Laboratory in Rijswijk, the Netherlands. A group
of 70 experts from 13 NATO countries and 5 NATO commands and panels
discussed all aspects of CB defence. The LTSS has a dual purpose:
1.
Provide the authorities with an assessment of progress in science
and technology over a period of ten to fifteen years and on the
impact this progress may have on the military art.
2.
To provide research planners with recommendations for research
programmes in order of priority, probability of success and the
amount of the effort involved.
Reviewing
the conclusions and recommendations of the LTSS there appear to
be two dominant technologies that have an impact on CB defense:
biotechnology and computer-technology. Biotechnology comprises
all the aspects of biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology,
genetic engineering, etc. Computer technology especially aims
at the management and rapid processing of large amounts of information.
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The fourth international meeting at the original
home of the Chemical and Biological Medical Treatment Symposium
(CBMTS) and the eighth meeting in the CBMTS series, begins
at the Spiez Laboratory Switzerland on 28 April 2002. With
115 papers presented and 140 professionals in science and
medicine from 28 countries participating, this is CBMTS IV.
The Program - CBMTS IV
Sunday 28 April 2002
0900 -1200 Special Training Session for participants desiring
assistance with their presentations: Dr. Barbara Price, CBMTS
IV Chair, and other volunteers
1500 - Special Training Session continues
1600 - Early registration and pick up conference material
1800 - Buses pick up participants at the hotels in Spiez for registration
1900 - Meeting of Session chairs and coochairs
1915 - Sector/Session chairs/co-chairs meet with their session
presenters
1930 - Welcome party "Cheese and wine"
2100 - Buses return participants to hotel
Monday 29 April 2002
0745 - Buses promptly leave hotel area for Spiez Lab
0800 - Registration and pick up conference materials
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CBMTS IV: Selected Abstracts
Iraq and BW: Capability - Infrastructure, Material,
Equipment: Experiences from UNSCOM (United Nations Special Commission)
inspections in Iraq January 1995 - December 1998)
Dr. Gabriele Kraatz-Wadsack
Robert Koch Institute
D-10963 Berlin, Germany
Until
July 1995 Iraq repeatedly asserted that the only biological activity
associated with BW was fundamental research. In July and August
1995 Iraq declared a major BW programme including weaponization
of three agents. Iraq designed, tested and manufactured a range
of BW weapons, such as artillery shells, aerial bombs, warheads,
aerosol generators and modified fuel drop tanks. In the Technical
Evaluation Meeting (cont. p. 8 - Abstracts)
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Bioterrorism: ASA/CBMTS Overview
The
ASA issue 02-3, 21 June 2002, will include a summary of the
CBMTS IV discussions and papers presented within the complex
and convoluted arena of bioterrorism. We will also present those
recommendations from this exceptionally important meeting on
the methodologies to be used that could assist in expediting
the flow of required information that would not only help save
lives but would help prevent miscalculations that could result
in catastrophic decisions being made. ASA will also pursue the
ASA 02-1 issue on the Anthrax Saga which ASA believes to be
'not US'.
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