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Splinternet Introduces GammaTect Plus(TM) To The Radiation Detection Marketplace To Protect Against Dirty Bombs

Categorie : Bio-terrorism / Terrorism
Splinternet Holdings, Inc., (OTC BB: SLNH.OB) announced today a highly sophisticated integrated gamma radiation detection sensor system called GammaTect Plus?, in the fight against the potential threat of a dirty bomb. The quantities of radioactive materials stored at commercial sites combined with ...

read more Splinternet Holdings, Inc., (OTC BB: SLNH.OB) announced today a highly sophisticated integrated gamma radiation detection sensor system called GammaTect Plus?, in the fight against the potential threat of a dirty bomb. The quantities of radioactive materials stored at commercial sites combined with read more Sat Apr 2008 Sat Apr 2008

New Book: Fighting Terror Online

Categorie : Bio-terrorism / Terrorism
Inspired by recent threats of terrorism, Professor Martin Golumbic, Director of the Caesarea Rothschild Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science at the University of Haifa wrote this new book examining the future of online terrorism. As Professor Golumbic explains, online ter ...

read more Inspired by recent threats of terrorism, Professor Martin Golumbic, Director of the Caesarea Rothschild Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science at the University of Haifa wrote this new book examining the future of online terrorism. As Professor Golumbic explains, online ter read more Sat Apr 2008 Sat Apr 2008

Development Of Sensors With Widespread Applications Including Detection Of Homemade Bombs

Categorie : Bio-terrorism / Terrorism
A team of chemists and physicists at the University of California, San Diego has developed a tiny, inexpensive sensor chip capable of detecting trace amounts of hydrogen peroxide, a chemical used in the most common form of homemade explosives. ...

read more A team of chemists and physicists at the University of California, San Diego has developed a tiny, inexpensive sensor chip capable of detecting trace amounts of hydrogen peroxide, a chemical used in the most common form of homemade explosives. read more Sat Apr 2008 Sat Apr 2008

Time To Take A Stand To Protect Scientists Performing Animal Research

Categorie : Bio-terrorism / Terrorism
Biological Psychiatry, in its upcoming April 15th issue, is publishing a critically important commentary written by its Editors, members of its Editorial Committee, and its Editorial Board. This commentary is an urgent public statement, highlighting the increasing problem of terrorist acts, by indiv ...

read more Biological Psychiatry, in its upcoming April 15th issue, is publishing a critically important commentary written by its Editors, members of its Editorial Committee, and its Editorial Board. This commentary is an urgent public statement, highlighting the increasing problem of terrorist acts, by indiv read more Sat Apr 2008 Sat Apr 2008

Ready To Go: Mobile Terahertz Devices

Categorie : Bio-terrorism / Terrorism
Everybody knows microwaves - but what are terahertz waves? These higher-frequency waves are a real jack-of-all-trades. They can help to detect explosives or drugs without having to open a suitcase or search through items of clothing. They can reveal which substances are flowing through plastic tubes ...

read more Everybody knows microwaves - but what are terahertz waves? These higher-frequency waves are a real jack-of-all-trades. They can help to detect explosives or drugs without having to open a suitcase or search through items of clothing. They can reveal which substances are flowing through plastic tubes read more Sat Apr 2008 Sat Apr 2008

Scientists Develop Strategy To Rapidly Describe Outbreak Strains With Next-Generation DNA Sequencing

Categorie : Bio-terrorism / Terrorism
In the event of an outbreak or a bioterrorist attack, rapid identification of the genetic changes responsible for virulence or drug resistance is essential to mounting an effective response. Standard DNA sequencing and analysis of a pathogen genome is time-intensive and likely impractical during a ...

read more In the event of an outbreak or a bioterrorist attack, rapid identification of the genetic changes responsible for virulence or drug resistance is essential to mounting an effective response. Standard DNA sequencing and analysis of a pathogen genome is time-intensive and likely impractical during a read more Sat Apr 2008 Sat Apr 2008

Queen's Develops Safe 'Green' Decontamination Method

Categorie : Bio-terrorism / Terrorism
Research by two Queen's scientists has resulted in an exciting new method for rapidly and safely destroying toxic agents such as chemical weapons and pesticides.Recently completed testing by an independent European defence corporation has shown the researchers' method to be greater than 99 per cent ...

read more Research by two Queen's scientists has resulted in an exciting new method for rapidly and safely destroying toxic agents such as chemical weapons and pesticides.Recently completed testing by an independent European defence corporation has shown the researchers' method to be greater than 99 per cent read more Sat Apr 2008 Sat Apr 2008

Psychological Impact Of Raising The Terrorism Alert Level

Categorie : Bio-terrorism / Terrorism
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's color-coded system for warning the public of the risk of a terrorist attack does not appear to cause undue stress among law enforcement officers, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University o ...

read more The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's color-coded system for warning the public of the risk of a terrorist attack does not appear to cause undue stress among law enforcement officers, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University o read more Sat Apr 2008 Sat Apr 2008

Cause Of Terrorism May Not Be Linked To Poverty

Categorie : Bio-terrorism / Terrorism
New research suggests political freedom and geographic factors contribute significantly to causes of terrorism, challenging the common view that terrorism is rooted in poverty."There is no significant relationship between a country's wealth and level of terrorism once other factors like the country' ...

read more New research suggests political freedom and geographic factors contribute significantly to causes of terrorism, challenging the common view that terrorism is rooted in poverty. read more Sat Apr 2008 Sat Apr 2008

Peace Paradox And Air Terror

Categorie : Bio-terrorism / Terrorism
The research found peace treaties signed before Sept. 11 included civil aviation agreements which did not take into account the possibility of air terror attacks such as the attack on the World Trade Center.Peace agreements, stability and regional prosperity, in an interesting paradox, increase the ...

read more The research found peace treaties signed before Sept. 11 included civil aviation agreements which did not take into account the possibility of air terror attacks such as the attack on the World Trade Center.Peace agreements, stability and regional prosperity, in an interesting paradox, increase the read more Sat Apr 2008 Sat Apr 2008

Public Safety In The Hands Of Mathematical Algorithms For Risk Assessment

Categorie : Bio-terrorism / Terrorism
There's safety (and security) in numbers... especially when those numbers are random. That's the lesson learned from a DHS-sponsored research project out of the University of Southern California (USC). The research is already helping to beef up security at LAX airport in Los Angeles, and it could so ...

read more There's safety (and security) in numbers... especially when those numbers are random. That's the lesson learned from a DHS-sponsored research project out of the University of Southern California (USC). The research is already helping to beef up security at LAX airport in Los Angeles, and it could so read more Sat Apr 2008 Sat Apr 2008

Health Problems In Persian Gulf War Veterans Higher Due To Chemical Exposure

Categorie : Bio-terrorism / Terrorism
A study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine shows there is increasing evidence that high rates of illness in Persian Gulf War Veterans can be explained, in part, by exposure to certain chemicals, including pesticides and nerve agents. Veterans from the 1990-9 ...

read more A study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine shows there is increasing evidence that high rates of illness in Persian Gulf War Veterans can be explained, in part, by exposure to certain chemicals, including pesticides and nerve agents. Veterans from the 1990-9 read more Wed Mar 2008 Wed Mar 2008

PharmAthene Completes Pharmacokinetic Studies Of Protexia(R); Program On Target For IND Filing In 2008

Categorie : Bio-terrorism / Terrorism
PharmAthene, Inc., a biodefense company specializing in the development and commercialization of medical countermeasures against chemical and biological threats, announced that it has completed the initial pharmacokinetic (PK) testing of Protexia(R), the Company's broad spectrum chemical nerve agen ...

read more PharmAthene, Inc., a biodefense company specializing in the development and commercialization of medical countermeasures against chemical and biological threats, announced that it has completed the initial pharmacokinetic (PK) testing of Protexia(R), the Company's broad spectrum chemical nerve agen read more Wed Mar 2008 Wed Mar 2008

MIT's PANTHER Sensor Quickly Detects Pathogens

Categorie : Bio-terrorism / Terrorism
Researchers at MIT Lincoln Laboratory have developed a powerful sensor that can detect airborne pathogens such as anthrax and smallpox in less than three minutes. The new device, called PANTHER (for PAthogen Notification for THreatening Environmental Releases), represents a "significant adv ...

read more Researchers at MIT Lincoln Laboratory have developed a powerful sensor that can detect airborne pathogens such as anthrax and smallpox in less than three minutes. The new device, called PANTHER (for PAthogen Notification for THreatening Environmental Releases), represents a read more Thu Mar 2008 Thu Mar 2008

Cities At Risk For Terrorism Identified By BIO5 Researcher

Categorie : Bio-terrorism / Terrorism
A University of Arizona researcher has created a new system to dramatically show American cities their relative level of vulnerability to bioterrorism.Walter W. Piegorsch, an expert on environmental risk, has placed 132 major cities - from Albany, N.Y., to Youngstown, Ohio - on a color-coded map tha ...

read more A University of Arizona researcher has created a new system to dramatically show American cities their relative level of vulnerability to bioterrorism.Walter W. Piegorsch, an expert on environmental risk, has placed 132 major cities - from Albany, N.Y., to Youngstown, Ohio - on a color-coded map tha read more Thu Mar 2008 Thu Mar 2008

International Information Sharing Needed To Prevent Nuclear Threats

Categorie : Bio-terrorism / Terrorism
Information about the characteristics of nuclear and other radioactive materials stored and used by countries needs to be shared globally to combat the illicit trafficking of nuclear materials and nuclear terrorism, says a report published by the Royal Society. ...

read more Information about the characteristics of nuclear and other radioactive materials stored and used by countries needs to be shared globally to combat the illicit trafficking of nuclear materials and nuclear terrorism, says a report published by the Royal Society. read more Thu Mar 2008 Thu Mar 2008

Latest Threat To Humanity Posed By Killer Military Robots

Categorie : Bio-terrorism / Terrorism
A robotics expert at the University of Sheffield will today (27 February 2008) issue stark warnings over the threat posed to humanity by new robot weapons being developed by powers worldwide.In a keynote address to the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Professor Noel Sharkey, from the Universi ...

read more A robotics expert at the University of Sheffield will today (27 February 2008) issue stark warnings over the threat posed to humanity by new robot weapons being developed by powers worldwide.In a keynote address to the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Professor Noel Sharkey, from the Universi read more Fri Feb 2008 Fri Feb 2008

UM Scientists Create Technology For Analysis And Forecasting Of Terrorism

Categorie : Bio-terrorism / Terrorism
Researchers at the University of Maryland's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) have developed the SOMA Terror Organization Portal (STOP) allowing analysts to query automatically learned rules on terrorist organization behavior, forecast potential behavior based on these rules, and, mos ...

read more Researchers at the University of Maryland's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) have developed the SOMA Terror Organization Portal (STOP) allowing analysts to query automatically learned rules on terrorist organization behavior, forecast potential behavior based on these rules, and, mos read more Fri Feb 2008 Fri Feb 2008

Sniffing Out Insider Threats May Improve Public Safety, Prevent Terrorism

Categorie : Bio-terrorism / Terrorism
A rapid way to spot insider threats from individuals within an organization such as a multinational company or military installation is reported in the current issue of the International Journal of Security and Networks. The technology uses data mining techniques to scour email and build up a pictur ...

read more A rapid way to spot insider threats from individuals within an organization such as a multinational company or military installation is reported in the current issue of the International Journal of Security and Networks. The technology uses data mining techniques to scour email and build up a pictur read more Sat Feb 2008 Sat Feb 2008

Nuclear Detectives Urgently Needed

Categorie : Bio-terrorism / Terrorism
A terrorist nuclear explosion devastates Manhattan, but no group takes credit. The pressure on the U.S. president to retaliate is intense. Acting on sketchy information, the president orders an attack, but it turns out to be the wrong terrorists, in the wrong country. Things go downhill from there. ...

read more A terrorist nuclear explosion devastates Manhattan, but no group takes credit. The pressure on the U.S. president to retaliate is intense. Acting on sketchy information, the president orders an attack, but it turns out to be the wrong terrorists, in the wrong country. Things go downhill from there. read more Fri Feb 2008 Fri Feb 2008

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