Autumn 2008

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STATE OF THE UNION

Major General Steve Reeves. Joint Program Executive Officer for Chemical Biological Defense (JPEO CBD) for the US DOD, gave Gwyn Winfield an appraisal of the JPEO at the Joint CBRN Conference at Fort Leonard Wood.
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SPRINGING FROM THERMOPYLAE

Colonel Vance Visser, Commanding Officer of the 48th Chemical Brigade. tells Gwyn Winfield about the CBRNE point of the 20th Command spear.
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HEADMASTER AND COMMANDER

Colonel Wolfgang Klos, General of the German NBC Defence Corps and Commander of Sonthofen, tells Gwyn Winfield about the changes in both the school and the NBC Defence Corps.
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OVER THE COUNTER

Peter Bechtel, director of the US Army Nuclear and Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction Agency, (USANCA), tells Gwyn Winfield about it's new direction.
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HUNGRY FOR GROWTH

Colonel Janos Zelenak, Commanding Officer of the Hungarian Area Control Centre, tells CBRNe World about how they are keen to keep building their multi-national capability.
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DR FUTURITY

Admiral Jay Cohen, Under Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate, explains to Gwyn Winfield how they are making the future possible.
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SCHOOL’S OUT

Chief Superintendent Andrew Sigsworth, Head of the UK’s Police National CBRN Centre, tells CBRNe World how their Ryton centre will move from strength to strength.
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NO ONE BEATS THE IRS!

Captain Pavel Spulak, Senior Commissioner of the Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic, tells Brian O’Shea about the CBRN response of their Integrated Rescue Service.
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THE DRUGS DON’T WORK

Gwyn Winfield looks at the role of CBRN troops in counter-narcotics operations.
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STRIP TEASE

Dr Steven Mitchell, Research Scientist at DSTL Porton Down, tells Gwyn Winfield about the promise of peelable coatings.
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FALL OUT BOY

Dr Nikolaus Schneider, Head of Nuclear Decontamination Section at WIS, tells Gwyn Winfield about the work that they are doing on radiological decontamination.
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HALL MONITOR

Duncan McClure, Radiation Meteorology Group Leader of the Radiation Protection Division of the UK’s Health Protection Agency describes the real world challenges of post incident radiation monitoring.
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EMPOWERING GERMANY

Dr Leopold Weil, Director of Nuclear Safety at the Federal Office of Radiation Protection, on current and future developments in German nuclear power generation.
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IRAQ - EVOLUTION OF THE IED

Al Welch, technical consultant at HMS, examines the evolution of the IED threat in Iraq
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HARDENING THE FUTURE

Adam Baddeley looks at how the future soldier systems are preparing for CBRN defence.
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CAPABILITY PROFILES

The latest cbrne technology profiled
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DECONTAMINATION SOLUTIONS ROUNDUP

A survey of decontamination solutions.
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CRYSTAL BALL

The Crystal Ball is an article written for each edition of CBRNe World. The magazine is focusing on the growth of defence against non-conventional weapons, from NBC, to CBRN to CBRNE. The aim of the Crystal Ball is to raise issues that will likely effect CBRN defence in 20 year’s time.
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PRAIRIE DOG

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