The Networked Underwater Warfare Technology Demonstration Project (NUW TDP) is a Defence R&D Canada activity that will spend approximately $6.2M over four years to investigate, via simulation and real-time demonstration, future capabilities for the Canadian Navy and Maritime Air to carry out integrated, singleand multi-platform UnderWater Warfare (UWW) in national operations and coalition opera...

Global catastrophic biological risks (GCBRs) do not come with warning labels declaring them as such. Admittedly, if smallpox virus were released at multiple points around the world simultaneously, or if whole cities started showing major upticks in mortality from a respiratory infection, the global community would have a clear indication that a catastrophic event was occurring and would react a...

Iraq has used extensively chemical warfare agents in recent Iran-Iraq conflict (1980-1988) and it is believed about 450,000 people were exposed to this agents. Long-term effects of chemical warfare agents, particularly mustard gas, on pulmonary function tests (PFT) (VC, FEV1 , FVC, FEV/FVC, PEF, MEF50%, MEF25%, MEF25-75% , ERC and IC) are estimated during 7.7 [standard deviation (SD)=l.2] years...

The USSR possessed a unique national public health system that included an agency named "anti-plague system." Its mission was to protect the country from highly dangerous diseases of either natural or laboratory etiology. During the 1960s, the anti-plague system became the lead agency of a program to defend against biological warfare, codenamed Project 5. This responsibility grew and by the mid...

organophosphorous (op) chemical warfare nerve agents mainly sarin and tabun were used during the iran-iraq war with high mortalities. in addition to atropine and oximes, the followings have recently been used successfully for the treatment of op poisoning. 1. sodium bicarbonate: infusion of high doses of sodium bicarbonate (5 meq/kg in 60 min. followed by 5-6 meq/kg/day to obtain arterial blood...