VOLUME 12, NUMBER 1, 2000 LINCOLN LABORATORY JOURNAL 3 B   have seldom been used throughout history [1–4]. The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention of 1972 outlawed the possession and use of biological weapons; this convention has been ratified by all but a handful of major nations [5], and no nation has an overt, declared biological-weapons capability. Despite these facts, i...

Biological warfare agents were one of the most feared classes of weapons that coalition troops believed Iraq might use against them. Biologic agents can either be sufficiently toxic that they kill their victims quickly, or they may induce a sufficient degree of acute disability that troops cannot fight effectively or defend themselves against an attack. The Centers for Disease Control and Preve...

We developed a fiber-optic, microsphere-based, high-density array composed of 18 species-specific probe microsensors to identify biological warfare agents. We simultaneously identified multiple biological warfare agents in environmental samples by looking at specific probe responses after hybridization and response patterns of the multiplexed array.