Summer 2008
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LEADER
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CONTENTS
CBRNe News
ROMANIAN CONFERENCE PREVIEW
22nd to 24th September will see Europe 's largest CBRNE event with speakers from fourteen countries.
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CBRN PRAETOR
Romanian State Secretary for Defence Policy & Planning, Mr Corneliu Dobritoiu tells Gwyn Winfield about important developments in Romanian CBRN defence.
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REACHING THE SUMMIT
Chief Superintendent Catalin Dragota , Director of the Directorate for Combating Organised Crime, and Detective Chief Inspector Dorin Grosu, Chief of Strategic Materials and NBC Unit within the Romanian Police, tell Gwyn Winfield about their CBRN capability.
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BIRTHDAY BOYS AND GIRLS
Brigadier Thomas Spoehr celebrates 90 years of the US Chemical Corps.
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WAKING THE CBRN BEAR
V G Petrov, Head of Laboratory at the Institute of Applied Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Science explains how Russia’s CBRN services are marching into the modern world.
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FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
A senior Russian military officer gives his opinions on the future of their CBRN defence forces as they reach their 90th birthday.
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HOME TOWN BOY
Dr. Lee Fook Kay, Head of the Chief Science and Technology Office (OCSTO) in the Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs, talks to Gwyn Winfield about their CBRN research.
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DiRDDy JOB, BUT SOMEBODY’S GOT TO DO IT...
Lieutenant Colonel Teong How Hwa, Director of the Hazardous Materials Department of the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) shares Singapore’s response to dirty bomb incidents within the CBRN world.
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DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIM
Lieutenant Colonel Bernd Allert, former Deputy Chief Theatre Force protection & Senior officer CBRN defence, assesses the International Security Assistance Force’s (ISAF’s) ability to deal with TIC and TIM incidents.
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CHINESE STEW
Dr David Hummair, Research Programme Director for Armasuisse S&T, and consultant Shawn Nelson look at one of the bio-side issues of the Beijing Olympics.
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WHEN SIZE MATTERS
Dr Alexander Grabowski, gives his opinions on the decontamination of sensitive equipment.
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NEVER SEND A MAN TO DO A ROBOT’S JOB...
Gwyn Winfield talks to the team behind the US’s robotic decon programme.
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HELLO KITTY
Pete Annunziato, CUGR Team Leader at Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), tells Gwyn Winfield about taking CUGR into the wild.
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SWEDISH MADE
Major Martin Risberg, Chief of Operations of the Swedish CBRN Defence Unit tells Brian O’Shea about improving their CBRN capability.
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BIG BREATH
Gwyn Winfield looks at the changes that new user requirements for CBRN are having on the development of SCBA.
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AN IN-TENTS EXPERIENCE
Lieutenant Colonel Rick Barker, Canadian Forces Director of CBRN Defence, assesses the need for collective protection (Colpro) and asks what elements are required for effective protection.
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BOMB ON BOARD
Tim Saunderson analyses the growing threat from vehicle-borne IED’s, and asks whether current protection standards are sufficient to meet it.
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SAFETY FIRST
Colonel Rick Whitman, US Army, discusses radiation safety and other considerations for security scanning systems.
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A MODELLING CAREER
Richard Fry of the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) tells Gwyn Winfield about the work they are doing with the Urban Dispersal Model.
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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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UGV ROUNDUP
A survey of unmanned ground vehicles.
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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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