Engineered Pathogens and Unnatural Biological Weapons: The Future
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Case Studies in Terrorism
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Bioterrorism: An analysis of biological agents used in terrorist events
This study aims to provide an epidemiological description of all terrorism-related attacks using biological agents sustained between 1970 and 2019. This data will be useful in the development of education programs in counter-terrorism medicine (CTM), and provide an insight into potential attacks in the future.
Outbreak: A Comprehensive Analysis of Biological Terrorism♦ : Studies
Abstract Only a few studies on biological terrorism have ever been conducted empirically. Many of these focus on CBRN terrorism as a whole, rather than biological terrorism, specifically. Other accounts utilize a case- or historical analysis instead. This study serves as the most comprehensive empirical assessment of bioterrorism to date by drawing on the Profiles of Incidents involving CBRN ...
Confronting the threat of bioterrorism: realities, challenges, and
Global terrorism is a rapidly growing threat to world security, and increases the risk of bioterrorism. In this Review, we discuss the potential threat of bioterrorism, agents that could be exploited, and recent developments in technologies and policy for detecting and controlling epidemics that have been initiated intentionally. The local and international response to infectious disease ...
Comprehensive Review of Bioterrorism
Bioterrorism involves the deliberate release of bioweapons to cause death or disease in humans, animals, or plants. Biological weapons may be developed or used as part of a government policy in biological warfare or by terrorist groups or criminals. Biological weapons can initiate large-scale epidemics with an unparalleled lethality, and nation-states and terrorist groups have used dangerous ...
The threat of bioterrorism
Manfred S Green and colleagues reviewed the modern aspects of bioterrorism threats, using the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classification for their analysis of biological agents with potential for bioterrorism. The CDC categorised these agents into three distinct groups, depending on public health impact (severity of illness and mortality), dissemination potential ...
Outbreak: A comprehensive analysis of biological terrorism (diamond
Abstract Only a few studies on biological terrorism have ever been conducted empirically. Many of these focus on CBRN terrorism as a whole, rather than biological terrorism, specifically. Other accounts utilize a case- or historical analysis instead.
Bioterrorism: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Figure 2: Most frequently used biological agents compiled from National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), "Profiles of Incidents Involving CBRN and Non-State Actors (POICN) Database." (University of Maryland, 2018).11
Bioterrorism: An analysis of biological agents used in ...
This study aims to provide an epidemiological description of all terrorism-related attacks using biological agents sustained between 1970 and 2019. Methods: Data collection was performed using a retrospective database search through the Global Terrorism Database (GTD).
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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exposed global vulnerabilities to biological threats and refocused attention on the possibility of deliberate biological attacks. This draft report discusses the opportunities offered by biotechnology and other Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (EDTs), as well as the main challenges presented by biological weapons. The draft report provides a general ...
Implications of the Pandemic for Terrorist Interest in Biological
Some policymakers and analysts have expressed concern that weaknesses in responses to the COVID-19 pandemic will motivate terrorists to seek biological weapons. While the prospect of the Islamic State and al-Qaeda pursuing biological weapons is not zero, it is unlikely, given the difficulties involved and the availability of simpler alternatives.
Biological Terrorism: the Threat of The 21st Century
The Biological Toxin Weapons Convention provided the basic guidelines to States, to enable each State to ensure the non-proliferation of biological weapons. However, the brevity of the Convention and the absence of a verification regime for the BTWC, has made it a case of being a Convention without teeth.
2020_International Legal Framework Against Biological Terrorism
In response to this growing threat, UNODC delivered an online awareness-raising event entitled "The International Legal Framework against Biological Terrorism" in September 2020. The event raised awareness of the existing international legal instruments, encouraged Member States' adherence to them as well as offered a platform to explore and discuss how the instruments reinforce one ...
PDF Weapons, Biological Terrorism, and Their Multifaceted Implications for
a specific aspect of the biological threat towards the United States, each chapter illustrates the biological threat to the United States is real, menacing, and must be addressed for the future of U.S. security. Due to continuous changes in technology, domestic terrorism threats, and state-to-state relationships, this thesis highlights the need
Bioterrorism
Bioterrorism The threat of biological weapons poses unique challenges for government officials charged with devising immediate and longer-term response plans. RAND has developed exercises to train and evaluate the preparedness of state and local public health agencies to respond to bioterrorism. RAND researchers have also examined the longer-term psychological consequences of bioterrorism and ...
Chemical and Biological Terrorism: How Real a Threat?
The potential threat of chemical and biological. terrorism is sufficient to warrant an ongoing invest-. ment in improved intelligence collection and civil defense as a prudent insurance policy, but not on. the massive scale advocated by some publicists and federal officials. Given finite resources, it is essen-.
Bioterrorism, an Emerging Threat
The case studies of bioterrorism in terms of warfare highlight use of bioweapons at political fronts. Similarly, the success story of controlling bird flu and advent and persistence of dengue show the status of bioterrorism and Pakistan's preparedness to deal with this menace.
Historical Trends Related to Bioterrorism: An Empirical Analysis
The vulnerability of civilian populations to chemical, biological, radiologic, or nuclear terrorism has been widely discussed, but information on historical cases is anecdotal and often inaccurate (3). Without a realistic threat assessment based on solid empirical data, government policymakers lack the knowledge they need to design prudent and cost-effective programs for preventing or ...
Confronting the threat of bioterrorism: realities, challenges, and
Abstract. Global terrorism is a rapidly growing threat to world security, and increases the risk of bioterrorism. In this Review, we discuss the potential threat of bioterrorism, agents that could be exploited, and recent developments in technologies and policy for detecting and controlling epidemics that have been initiated intentionally.
Jihadists' Use and Pursuit of Weapons of Mass Destruction: A
Abstract This article compares and contrasts the Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) weapons programs of Al-Qaeda and Islamic State through the framework of organizational structure, typology, ideology and CBRN incidents (selected case studies). A three-step CBRN model explaining the use of CBRN weapons by both groups is proposed. This model suggests that the use of CBRN ...
Bioterrorism
Bioterrorism is terrorism involving the intentional release or dissemination of biological agents. [ 1] These agents include bacteria, viruses, insects, fungi, and/or their toxins, and may be in a naturally occurring or a human-modified form, in much the same way as in biological warfare. [ 2][ 1] Further, modern agribusiness is vulnerable to anti-agricultural attacks by terrorists, and such ...
Biological warfare and bioterrorism: a historical review
Because of the increased threat of terrorism, the risk posed by various microorganisms as biological weapons needs to be evaluated and the historical development and use of biological agents better understood. Biological warfare agents may be more potent than conventional and chemical weapons. During the past century, the progress made in biotechnology and biochemistry has simplified the ...
Major Cases
Major Cases Significant terrorism cases worked by the FBI and its partners over the course of FBI history.
Risks of Cross Border Operations: Chiquita Brands International Found
The ATA provides a legal remedy for American victims killed or injured by international terrorism, creating a private cause of action. The statute also states that American victims injured by terrorism shall receive three times the amount of damages they sustained and the cost of the suit, including attorney's fees.
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This study aims to provide an epidemiological description of all terrorism-related attacks using biological agents sustained between 1970 and 2019. This data will be useful in the development of education programs in counter-terrorism medicine (CTM), and provide an insight into potential attacks in the future.
Abstract Only a few studies on biological terrorism have ever been conducted empirically. Many of these focus on CBRN terrorism as a whole, rather than biological terrorism, specifically. Other accounts utilize a case- or historical analysis instead. This study serves as the most comprehensive empirical assessment of bioterrorism to date by drawing on the Profiles of Incidents involving CBRN ...
Global terrorism is a rapidly growing threat to world security, and increases the risk of bioterrorism. In this Review, we discuss the potential threat of bioterrorism, agents that could be exploited, and recent developments in technologies and policy for detecting and controlling epidemics that have been initiated intentionally. The local and international response to infectious disease ...
Bioterrorism involves the deliberate release of bioweapons to cause death or disease in humans, animals, or plants. Biological weapons may be developed or used as part of a government policy in biological warfare or by terrorist groups or criminals. Biological weapons can initiate large-scale epidemics with an unparalleled lethality, and nation-states and terrorist groups have used dangerous ...
Manfred S Green and colleagues reviewed the modern aspects of bioterrorism threats, using the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classification for their analysis of biological agents with potential for bioterrorism. The CDC categorised these agents into three distinct groups, depending on public health impact (severity of illness and mortality), dissemination potential ...
Abstract Only a few studies on biological terrorism have ever been conducted empirically. Many of these focus on CBRN terrorism as a whole, rather than biological terrorism, specifically. Other accounts utilize a case- or historical analysis instead.
Figure 2: Most frequently used biological agents compiled from National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), "Profiles of Incidents Involving CBRN and Non-State Actors (POICN) Database." (University of Maryland, 2018).11
This study aims to provide an epidemiological description of all terrorism-related attacks using biological agents sustained between 1970 and 2019. Methods: Data collection was performed using a retrospective database search through the Global Terrorism Database (GTD).
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exposed global vulnerabilities to biological threats and refocused attention on the possibility of deliberate biological attacks. This draft report discusses the opportunities offered by biotechnology and other Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (EDTs), as well as the main challenges presented by biological weapons. The draft report provides a general ...
Some policymakers and analysts have expressed concern that weaknesses in responses to the COVID-19 pandemic will motivate terrorists to seek biological weapons. While the prospect of the Islamic State and al-Qaeda pursuing biological weapons is not zero, it is unlikely, given the difficulties involved and the availability of simpler alternatives.
The Biological Toxin Weapons Convention provided the basic guidelines to States, to enable each State to ensure the non-proliferation of biological weapons. However, the brevity of the Convention and the absence of a verification regime for the BTWC, has made it a case of being a Convention without teeth.
In response to this growing threat, UNODC delivered an online awareness-raising event entitled "The International Legal Framework against Biological Terrorism" in September 2020. The event raised awareness of the existing international legal instruments, encouraged Member States' adherence to them as well as offered a platform to explore and discuss how the instruments reinforce one ...
a specific aspect of the biological threat towards the United States, each chapter illustrates the biological threat to the United States is real, menacing, and must be addressed for the future of U.S. security. Due to continuous changes in technology, domestic terrorism threats, and state-to-state relationships, this thesis highlights the need
Bioterrorism The threat of biological weapons poses unique challenges for government officials charged with devising immediate and longer-term response plans. RAND has developed exercises to train and evaluate the preparedness of state and local public health agencies to respond to bioterrorism. RAND researchers have also examined the longer-term psychological consequences of bioterrorism and ...
The potential threat of chemical and biological. terrorism is sufficient to warrant an ongoing invest-. ment in improved intelligence collection and civil defense as a prudent insurance policy, but not on. the massive scale advocated by some publicists and federal officials. Given finite resources, it is essen-.
The case studies of bioterrorism in terms of warfare highlight use of bioweapons at political fronts. Similarly, the success story of controlling bird flu and advent and persistence of dengue show the status of bioterrorism and Pakistan's preparedness to deal with this menace.
The vulnerability of civilian populations to chemical, biological, radiologic, or nuclear terrorism has been widely discussed, but information on historical cases is anecdotal and often inaccurate (3). Without a realistic threat assessment based on solid empirical data, government policymakers lack the knowledge they need to design prudent and cost-effective programs for preventing or ...
Abstract. Global terrorism is a rapidly growing threat to world security, and increases the risk of bioterrorism. In this Review, we discuss the potential threat of bioterrorism, agents that could be exploited, and recent developments in technologies and policy for detecting and controlling epidemics that have been initiated intentionally.
Abstract This article compares and contrasts the Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) weapons programs of Al-Qaeda and Islamic State through the framework of organizational structure, typology, ideology and CBRN incidents (selected case studies). A three-step CBRN model explaining the use of CBRN weapons by both groups is proposed. This model suggests that the use of CBRN ...
Bioterrorism is terrorism involving the intentional release or dissemination of biological agents. [ 1] These agents include bacteria, viruses, insects, fungi, and/or their toxins, and may be in a naturally occurring or a human-modified form, in much the same way as in biological warfare. [ 2][ 1] Further, modern agribusiness is vulnerable to anti-agricultural attacks by terrorists, and such ...
Because of the increased threat of terrorism, the risk posed by various microorganisms as biological weapons needs to be evaluated and the historical development and use of biological agents better understood. Biological warfare agents may be more potent than conventional and chemical weapons. During the past century, the progress made in biotechnology and biochemistry has simplified the ...
Major Cases Significant terrorism cases worked by the FBI and its partners over the course of FBI history.
The ATA provides a legal remedy for American victims killed or injured by international terrorism, creating a private cause of action. The statute also states that American victims injured by terrorism shall receive three times the amount of damages they sustained and the cost of the suit, including attorney's fees.