Autumn 2007

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CBW GOTHENBURG SHOW REVIEW

FULLY SERVICED

Lt General Kersten Lahl, Commander of the German Joint Support Command spoke to Gwyn Winfield about their CBRN development.
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OUT OF THE WOODWORK

Major General Steve Reeves, Joint Programme Executive Officer Chemical, Biological Defense, was grabbed by Gwyn Winfield at the Joint CBRN Conference in Fort Leonard Wood.
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AMATEUR HOUR

Lt Colonel Christopher Garver, director of the Coalition Press Information Center, Multi National Force, Iraq, tells CBRNe World about the competence of the Chlorine attacks.
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LOCK STOCK AND THE OLD TOXIC BARRELS

Ten years after the Chemical Weapons Convention was signed, Dr Jan Medema from the Biological and Chemical Defence Consultancy, asks whether it is genuinely reducing the risks of chemical warfare.
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NEXT STOP

Gwyn Winfield was invited to the CBRN Training Working Group annual meeting in Budapest to see the future of CBRN training.
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GOOD THINGS-SMALL PACKAGES

Lt Colonel Rick Barker, Canadian Requirements Officer of the CBR MOU and Vice-Chairman of Nato’s Joint Capability Group on CBRN Defence, looks at the four nation group behind many of today’s CBRN standards.
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COPPING A DOSE

Brian O’Shea looks at the development of the radiological dosimeter in the first responder and military market.
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PANDORA’S BOX

Richard Whitman, Radiation Safety Officer at the US Customs and Border Protection reveals how a chance discovery in the 1980’s uncovered a 30 year old radiological accident.
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SEVERE WEIGHT LOSS

Gwyn Winfield looks into whether the trend for lightweight PPE can be realised or is it just a fad.
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THE HEAT OF BATTLE

The physiological burden of CBRN IPE is a major problem especially in hot climates. Dr Bernard Warme-Janville of the DGA/DET/Centre du Bouchet outlines a new French joint-forces study into how these effects can be best addressed.
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FLUSHING OUT ISOTOPES

Col.dr.eng Ion Savu, Commander, and Col.dr.bioch Constantin Stan, Project Manager of the Romanian Scientific Research Centre for NBC Defence and Ecology, unveil a new pharmaceutical decontamination product which might have saved Litvinenko.
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HAVING A SKINFUL

Brian O’Shea looks at the skin decontamination companies trying to fight the seven signs of contamination.
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THE WAY OF ALL FLESH

Michael Hinds, Hazard Assessment Team at SAIC looks at the issues and concerns of biological agent fate and the residual hazard.
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TEMPTING FATE

Wai Leng Loh, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore examines the agent fate of toxins and micro-organisms on indoor surfaces.
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CHRISTIAN VALUES

Jorge Christian, Product Director for Mobile Collective Protection Systems for JPM Colpro, within the US Joint program Executive office Chemical and Biological Defense, tells CBRNe World about keeping Colpro relevant.
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BUCK FOR YOUR BANG

Dr David Humair, Project manager, Swiss Ministry of Defence and Shawn Nelson, Consultant , on what makes a successful terrorist attack.
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JIEDDO MASTER

Brigadier general Anthony Tata, Deputy Director-Operations, of the Joint IEd Defeat Organisation (JIEDDO) tells Gwyn Winfield about dismantling the IED capability.
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NATO’S NEW MEMBER

Ivan Georgiev Popov of the Bulgarian defence Advanced Research Institute and Tsvetan Ivanov Popov of the Military Medical Academy, Laboratory of Experimental Toxicology, outline the ongoing revolution in Bulgaria’s military CBRN capability.
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BOOK REVIEW

War of Nerves. Chemical Warfare from World War 1 to Al-Qaeda. Jonathan B Tucker.

CRYSTAL BALL

Overview: The Crystal Ball is an article written for each edition of CBRNe World. The aim of the Crystal ball is to raise issues that will likely affect CBRN defence in +20 year’s time.
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TICs DETECTOR ROUNDUP

A survey of TICs detectors
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PRAIRIE DOG

Governor Gabriel Cinomis. A Prairie Dog, gives his opinion of CBRN matters from his unique perspective
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