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Chlorine Bombs
Published: Tuesday March 20th 1PM
Link: http://defensetech.org/2007/03/20/chlorine-bombs/
Description: Its a disturbing development in the Iraq insurgency. So far, 2007 has marked the first time al Qaeda terrorists made good on their promise to use chemical weapons on U.S. troops, Iraqi forcesand Iraqi civilians. Since January, al Qaeda operatives have detonated six vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices, or VBIEDs, using chlorine gas. Three were employed ... read more »
Low Tech Dirty Bombs Back In The Limelight
Published: Tuesday February 20th 10AM
Link: http://defensetech.org/2007/02/20/...ch-dirty-bombs-back-in-the-limelight/
Description: In the wake of the chlorine tanker truck bombing in Taji, Iraq today, domestic government agencies are taking another look at how easy it might be for terrorists to wreak stateside havoc. This from the Associated Press: QUANTICO, Va. Kirk Yeager makes bombs from the stuff found under kitchen sinks. He does it to ... read more »
Researching Tomorrow S Chem-bio Defense
Published: Thursday February 15th 5AM
Link: http://defensetech.org/2007/02/15/researching-tomorrows-chem-bio-defense/
Description: This is part three of my investigation of the DOD Chemical Biological Defense Program CBDP budget for FY2008. Today, we invade the lair of the research and development community. Sixty-one percent of the R&D budget for next year 610 million is in budget activities 6.1 through 6.3, what is called science and technology or the ... read more »
Buying Next Year S Chem-bio Gear
Published: Wednesday February 14th 5AM
Link: http://defensetech.org/2007/02/14/buying-next-years-chem-bio-gear/
Description: Following up yesterday s post on the new budget, let s see what chem-bio defense equipment the Defense Department is planning to buy. The top line items include unsurprisingly CB detection gear, individual protection equipment, and vaccines. About 36 percent of procurement dollars are going to buy specialized CB defense vehicles for the Army and CB detectors ... read more »
Inside The Pentagon S Chem-bio Budget
Published: Tuesday February 13th 5AM
Link: http://defensetech.org/2007/02/13/inside-the-pentagons-chem-bio-budget/
Description: The Defense Department s chem-bio defense budget CBDP only accounts for less than one percent of what the U.S. military spends. But there s still a lot to pore over. I thought that I would give an overview today, talk about procurement tomorrow, and talk about RDT&E on Thursday. Go to the Defense Department Comptroller s web site ... read more »
Bioshield Has Biofailed
Published: Wednesday January 17th 5AM
Link: http://defensetech.org/2007/01/17/bioshield-has-biofailed/
Description: The Washington Post has this article on the BioShield program. It s a bit of a scorecard on the four-year old program, and the score doesn t look good for homeland security. Let s take a look, agent by agent. Old Anthrax Treatment: As the result of an effort that began before BioShield, there are enough antibiotics in ... read more »
Pharma Hearts Big Barda
Published: Monday December 11th 9AM
Link: http://defensetech.org/2006/12/11/pharma-hearts-big-barda/
Description: And who wouldn t love a seven-foot Amazonian woman leading the Female Furies to save the day Oh, we re not talking about the DC comics book character Big BARDA It s also the name of a new Department of Health and Human Service s DHHS effort Well, we can talk about that, too. Last Thursday, the Senate approved ... read more »
Real Korea Worry: Chem-bio
Published: Tuesday October 17th 2PM
Link: http://defensetech.org/2006/10/17/real-korea-worry-chem-bio/
Description: North Korea s newly-tested nuke is bad news, for sure. But the bigger worry, says Popular Mechanics is the huge arsenal of mass casualty weapons that Kim & Co. have been assembling for 45 years: biological and chemical arms. While it would be foolish not to be gravely concerned about North Korea s purported development of an ... read more »
Bioshield: Bad News
Published: Monday September 18th 8PM
Link: http://defensetech.org/2006/09/18/bioshield-bad-news/
Description: This story about Project BioShield, the government s botched effort to build up a vaccine supply against anthrax and other bioterror threats, is a nice wrap-up of one of the administration s most troubled homeland security efforts and that s saying a lot . But the story also kind of misses, or at least sidesteps, the point. Since it ... read more »
Iraq S Biowar Labs: Mystery Solved
Published: Thursday August 31st 5AM
Link: http://defensetech.org/2006/08/31/iraqs-biowar-labs-mystery-solved/
Description: Okay, just when you thought that the whole Curveball-Iraqi biological weapons story couldn t get any weirder, it does. Milton Leitenberg of the Center for International Security Studies has provided me with the exclusive third and last part of the story behind the story of the alleged Iraqi mobile biological warfare labs. In Part 1, he ... read more »