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Biological and chemical weapons are a growing terrorist threat to
the United States and other nations and countermeasures continue to
evolve as a national and global priority issue. To keep up with
this rapidly changing and vital field we must establish the current
state-of-the-science on countermeasures to form a platform from
which to offer perspectives, policies, and procedures that will
assist the United States and other nations to defend themselves
from future threats. An up-to-date assessment of the technologies
and strategies for providing countermeasures to biological and
chemical terrorism, Advances in Biological and Chemical Terrorism
Countermeasures integrates vastly disparate disciplines, calling on
authors that are directly and currently involved in the research to
present their own data as well as their educated opinions and
advice. It draws heavily on the findings and conclusions from
research conducted through the Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.
National Program for Countermeasures to Biological and Chemical
Threats, which is partially funded through the U.S. Army Research,
Development, and Engineering Command. This book focuses on four
general areas of research: modeling, simulation, and visualization;
environmental protection; personal protection and therapeutics; and
the mechanistic and toxic effects of weapons. Individual chapters
discuss the relationship between risk and vulnerability, threat
agent dispersal through the environment, threat agent sensor
development, the use of phage display for detection and therapeutic
intervention, and an overview of recognized threats and their toxic
effects. Heavily referenced, this science-based work is an
excellent tool to assist military and homeland security personnel
and first responders to improve their ability to develop and
implement countermeasures to the potential biological and chemical
threat agents that continue to emerge.
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