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Critics Say U.S. Research Could Spark Biological Arms Race

April 29, 2004

Arms control advocates argued yesterday that plans for a Homeland Security Department research laboratory at Fort Detrick would violate the Biological Weapons Convention and could spark a biological arms race, the Baltimore Sun reported (see GSN, June 25, 2003).

GSN Article | Biological Weapons Use, Bio-Preparedness and Response
Israel Plans to Recall Civilian Gas Masks

June 17, 2004

Israel plans to recall millions of gas masks, in part because the threat of a biological or chemical attack from Iraq has decreased with the fall of Saddam Hussein, the Associated Press reported yesterday (see GSN, March 20, 2003).

GSN Article | Biological Weapons Use, Bio-Preparedness and Response, Chemical Weapons Use, Preparedness and Response, Chemical
U.K. Plans Recommendations on Strengthening U.N. Ability to Monitor Biological Weapons Incidents

June 23, 2004

WASHINGTON — The United Kingdom plans to propose next month to increase the ability of the U.N. Secretary General’s Office to investigate alleged uses of biological weapons, a U.S. biological weapons expert said yesterday (see GSN, April 13).

GSN Article | Biological, Biological Counterproliferation and Defense, Biological Weapons Programs, Biological Weapons Use, Sanctions
“45-Minute” Iraqi WMD Claim Based on Poor Information, British Inquiry Expected to Find

July 8, 2004

A British inquiry into intelligence on prewar Iraq is expected to find that there was inadequate intelligence to support the September 2002 British claim that prewar Iraq’s military could deploy biological and chemical weapons within 45 minutes of receiving a deployment order, the Financial Times reported today (see GSN, July 6).

GSN Article | Biological Weapons Use, Chemical Weapons Use
U.S. Specialists Prepare to Merge Forensic, Agricultural Sciences to Deter Bioterrorism

July 26, 2004

WASHINGTON — A group of U.S. plant disease experts hopes to combine its work with the science of a criminal investigation to protect U.S. crops against bioterrorism (see GSN, Nov. 17, 2003).

GSN Article | Biological, Biological Counterproliferation and Defense, Biological Terrorism, Biological Weapons Use
Iraqi Interim Government Reinstates Death Penalty for Biological Warfare, Other Offenses

Aug. 9, 2004

Those who commit crimes ranging from drug trafficking murder to the use of biological weapons in Iraq could again face execution, the country’s interim government said Sunday in reinstating capital punishment (see GSN, Aug. 3).

GSN Article | Biological, Biological Weapons Use
California Attempted Murder Case Resolved Without Ricin Possession Charges Against Two Suspects

Aug. 11, 2004

Two lesbian lovers pleaded guilty Monday to attempted murder but were not charged with possession of ricin, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported (see GSN, Jan. 9).

GSN Article | Biological, Biological Weapons Use, Toxins
Japan Has Secret Military Plan for Potential North Korea Terrorist Attack, Report Says

Sept. 22, 2004

The Japanese army has developed a secret plan to respond to a possible chemical or biological attack by North Korea, Agence France-Presse reported Sunday.

GSN Article | Biological Weapons Use, Bio-Preparedness and Response, Chemical Weapons Use, Preparedness and Response, Chemical, Terrorism
No Evidence that Ukrainian Presidential Candidate Was Victim of Assassination Attempt, Commission Says

Oct. 8, 2004

A Ukrainian parliamentary commission investigating the illness of opposition leader and presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko said yesterday that it has found no evidence to support allegations that Yushchenko had been poisoned (see GSN, Oct. 1).

GSN Article | Biological Weapons Use, Health Intelligence
U.S. Army Group to Train Against Unconventional War

July 25, 2005

The U.S. Army is organizing a group of soldiers to receive training against biological weapons, radiological “dirty bombs,” suicide bombers and other unconventional threats they might face in present and future conflicts, the Associated Press reported Friday (see GSN, July 8).

GSN Article | Biological Weapons Use, Bio-Preparedness and Response, Preparedness and Response, Radiological, Radiological Dispersal Devices
U.K. Makes Security Pledge to Libya

June 27, 2006

The United Kingdom yesterday pledged that it would seek a U.N. Security Council response to any attack against Libya involving biological or chemical weapons, Reuters reported (see GSN, May 16).

GSN Article | Biological Weapons Use, Chemical Weapons Use
South Korea Develops Military Procedures for Responding to Biological Attack

March 2, 2012

The South Korean Defense Ministry has begun delivering directions for the military to follow in the event of a biological weapons strike by North Korea, the Yonhap News Agency reported on Friday.

GSN Article | Biological Weapons Use, Bio-Preparedness and Response, Medical Countermeasures

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Critics Say U.S. Research Could Spark Biological Arms Race

Israel Plans to Recall Civilian Gas Masks

U.K. Plans Recommendations on Strengthening U.N. Ability to Monitor Biological Weapons Incidents

“45-Minute” Iraqi WMD Claim Based on Poor Information, British Inquiry Expected to Find

U.S. Specialists Prepare to Merge Forensic, Agricultural Sciences to Deter Bioterrorism

Iraqi Interim Government Reinstates Death Penalty for Biological Warfare, Other Offenses

California Attempted Murder Case Resolved Without Ricin Possession Charges Against Two Suspects

Japan Has Secret Military Plan for Potential North Korea Terrorist Attack, Report Says

No Evidence that Ukrainian Presidential Candidate Was Victim of Assassination Attempt, Commission Says

U.S. Army Group to Train Against Unconventional War

U.K. Makes Security Pledge to Libya

South Korea Develops Military Procedures for Responding to Biological Attack

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