BIOSECURITY AND BIOTERRORISM

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CONTRIBUTIONS

Milton Leitenberg

An Assessment of the Threat of the Use of Biological Weapons or Biological Agents 11

Milton Leitenberg Deadly Unknowns about Iraq’s Biological Weapons Program 37

Raymond A. Zilinskas Possible Terrorist Use of Modern Biotechnology Techniques 43

Marie I. Chevrier Compliance Measures for the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention Protocol

57

Gert G. Harigel The Concepts of WMDs: Chemical and Biological Weapons, Use in Warfare, Impact

on Society and Environment 65

Nicola Labanca Key Points in the History of Biological Warfare 83

Ottorino Cosivi WHO Contribution to Global Surveillance, Alert and Response to Microbial Threats

103

Decio Ripandelli Role of the ICGEB in the Implementation of Article X of the Biological and Toxin

Weapons Convention (BWC) 113

Francesco Mauro Possible Linkages between the Cartagena Biosafety Protocol and the Biological

and Toxic Weapons Convention 119

DOCUMENTS

Maria Wahlberg et al. The Future of Chemical and Biological Weapon disarmament in Iraq: from

UNSCOM to UNMOVIC 125

Raymond A. Zilinskas Assessing the Threat of Bioterrorism: Congressional Testimony by Raymond

Zilinskas 141

John V. Parachini Combating Terrorism: Assessing the Threat 159

Henry Sokolski Looming Security Threats 173

Henry Sokolski Rethinking Bio-Chemical Dangers 185

Gavin Cameron et al. 1999 WMD Terrorism Chronology: Incidents Involving Sub-National Actors

and Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Materials 189

Marie I. Chevrier Preventing Biological Proliferation: Strengthening the Biological Weapons

Convention 217