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BiodefenseEducation.org
http://www.biodefenseeducation.org/
A biodefense digital library and learning collaboratory; curated
by Donna M. D'Alessandro, M.D. and Michael P. D'Alessandro, M.D., funded in part
by the National Institute of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases. Content includes news stories, discussions, reference
library and more.
Biological and Chemical Weapons Control
http://www.fas.org/main/content.jsp?formAction=325&projectId=4
Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
Organized list of links to FAS documents.
Bioterror News
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032275/
MSNBC, Health, c2004.
Current news stories on a hot topic.
How
Biological and Chemical Warfare Works
http://people.howstuffworks.com/biochem-war.htm
Brain, Marshall. HowStuffWorks.com Raleigh, N.C., HSW Media
Networks, c1998-2003. In this edition of HowStuffWorks,
you will learn how chemical and biological weapons really work, how they might
be deployed and what the actual threats are.
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Air
University Library Index to Military Periodicals (AULIMP)
http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA279833
Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals is a
subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English
language military and aeronautical periodicals. The Index contains citations
since 1988 and is updated continuously.
Catalog
of U.S. Government Publications
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cgp/index.html
U.S. Government Printing Office, GPO Access. An index to print
and electronic publications created by Federal agencies. When available, links
are provided to the full-text of these publications. Additionally, the locate
libraries feature enables users to find libraries by state or area code that
can make print publications available for their use. Coverage begins with January
1994. New records are added daily.
Electronic
Research Tools
http://eresources.loc.gov/
Subscription databases available in all Library of Congress
Reading Rooms.
Facts on
International Relations and Security Trends (FIRST)
http://first.sipri.org/
FIRST is a joint project of the International Relations and
Security Network (ISN) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
The integrated database system contains clearly documented information from research
institutes around the world. It covers areas in the field of international relations
and security, such as hard facts on armed conflicts and peace keeping, arms production
and trade, military expenditure, armed forces and conventional weapons holding,
nuclear weapons, chronology, statistics and other reference data.
Scientific & Technical
Information Network (STINET)
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/prodsrvc/stinet.html
Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). Public STINET
access is free of charge, and does not require users to register with DTIC in
order to search citations to unclassified unlimited distribution documents. It
also provides free online full-text versions of all unclassified unlimited documents
recently added to DTIC's Technical Reports Collection.
National
Technical Information Service
http://www.ntis.gov/search/index.asp?loc=3-0-0
U.S. Department of Commerce. NTIS is the federal government's
central source for the sale of scientific, technical, engineering, and related
business information by or for the U.S. government and complementary materials
from international sources. Approximately 2.5 million products are available
in a variety of formats including online, electronic, multimedia, CD-ROM , paper,
and microfiche. You can access information on more than 750,000 of these products
from this web site.
PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes
over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations
are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links
to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
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Arms
Control Today
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/
Published by the Arms
Control Association, a national nonpartisan membership organization dedicated
to promoting public understanding of and support for effective arms control policies.
This site also has an excellent Subject
Resources page of links to full text documents. Full text of archived journal
articles are available to 1997.
Bulletin
of the Atomic Scientists
http://www.thebulletin.org/index.html
The Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science (EFNS) publishes
the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The EFNS mission is to educate citizens
about global security issues, especially the continuing dangers posed by nuclear
and other weapons of mass destruction. Journal articles are available in the Back
Issues Index, available online in full text to 1990.
The
CBW Chronicle
http://www.stimson.org/cbw/?sn=cb20011221166
Periodic newsletter about international and domestic events
related to the control and elimination of chemical and biological weapons. Published
by the Henry L. Stimson Center.
CML
Army Chemical Review
http://www.wood.army.mil/chmdsd/default.htm
U.S. Army Chemical School, Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri. Articles
are indexed to February 2001, but not currently available online.
Emerging
Infectious Diseases
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/index.htm
Published by the Centers for
Disease Control. The EID journal is available in its entirety and as individual
articles in the AdobeTM AcrobatTM (.pdf) file format and is a true representation
of the print version. Articles online date to 1995.
Journal
of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
http://jama.ama-assn.org/
Varying degrees of access, ranging from Tables of Contents
only (November 1962 - December 1974) to Abstracts only (January 1975 - December
1997) to Full Text (January 1975 - December 1997). To access full text of most
articles, you must purchase either a subscription or one-time access.
Medicine,
Conflict, and Survival
http://www.frankcass.com/jnls/mcs.htm
Frank Cass Publishers. An international journal for medical
and health professionals and for peace researchers. Complete tables of contents
and abstracts for some online.
New
Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/
Personal subscribers to the print edition of New Scientist
can access the Archive for free;
first time users may use the archive free of charge for 7 days. See especially the Bioterrorism and Bioweapons Special Report
Science
http://www.sciencemag.org/
Published by the American Association
for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Free public access allows searching
all available issues (Summaries/abstracts since 6 Oct. 95; full text since 20
Sep. 96). Free partial access to abstracts and summaries available as well as
a pay-per-article option.
Science & Technology
Review
http://www.llnl.gov/str/
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The monthly issues
can be accessed in HTML and portable document format (PDF), as can the complete index of
all online issues (March 1994 to present) of Science & Technology Review and
Energy & Technology Review (predecessor). Search engine also available.
Science
News
The Science News online editions archive provides
free access to the full text of articles that are available online (18 percent
of all articles published in Science News), bibliographic references and sources
for all articles published in Science News, and online-only features, since April
25, 1996.
Scientific
American
http://www.sciam.com/
Subscribers to SciAm Digital can search and access everything from 1993 to
present. Some issues are exclusively online;
various subscription plans available. Use the search
engine to identify articles back to 1999.
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Journal Articles
Arnon, Stephen S., and others.
Botulinum
Toxin as a Biological Weapon.
Journal of the American Medical Association, v. 285, Feb. 28,
2001: 1059-1070.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/285/8/1059
Borio, Luciana, and others.
Hemorrhagic
fever viruses as biological weapons.
Journal of the American Medical Association, v. 287, May 8,
2002: 2391-2405.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/287/18/2391
Casadevall, Arturo.
Passive
antibody administration (immediate immunity) as a specific defense against biological
weapons.
Emerging infectious diseases, v. 8, Aug. 2002: 833-841.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol8no8/01-0516.htm
Dando, Malcolm.
The
impact of the development of modern biology and medicine on the evolution of
offensive biological warfare programs in the twentieth century.
Defense analysis, v. 15, Apr. 1999: 43-62.
http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=3792949&db=mth
Davidson, Margaret.
Biowarrior.
American history, v.38, Jun. 2003: 44-49.
http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9901617&db=mth
Dennis, David, and others.
Tularemia
as a biological weapon.
Journal of the American Medical Association, v. 285, June 2001:
2763-2773.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/285/21/2763
Graham, Sarah.
Sensing
trouble: chemists approach homeland security in a variety of ways.
Scientific American.com, Apr. 28, 2003.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000C4241-C213-1EA6-BDC0809EC588EEDF&pageNumber=1&catID=4
Henderson, Donald A., and others.
Smallpox
as a biological weapon.
Journal of the American Medical Association, v. 22, June 1999:
2127-2137.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/281/22/2127
Inglesby, Thomas V., and others.
Anthrax
as a biological weapon.
Journal of the American Medical Association, v. 281, May 1999:
1735-1745.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/281/18/1735
Inglesby, Thomas V., and others.
Plague
as a biological weapon.
Journal of the American Medical Association, v. 283, May 2000: 2281-2290.
R15.A48
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/283/17/2281
National
Symposium on Medical and Public Health Response to Bioterrorism.
On February 16-17, 1999, in Arlington, Virginia, 950 public
health officials, physicians, and other medical personnel, along with government,
military, and intelligence experts gathered for the first National Symposium
on Medical and Public Health Response to Bioterrorism.
Emerging infectious diseases, v. 5, July-Aug. 1999: 491-602.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol5no4/contents.htm
Slezak, Thomas.
On
the Front Lines of Biodefense.
Science & Technology Review, April 2004.
http://www.llnl.gov/str/April04/Slezak.html
Stix, Gary.
One
last look. Although United Nations weapons inspector Rocco Casagrande
and his colleagues found no bioweapons in Iraq, they could sense that the government
had not come clean.
Scientific American, v. 288, June 6, 2003: 36-37.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?colID=30&articleID=000D5CB1-2116-1EB7-BDC0809EC588EEDF
Tucker, Jonathan.
Preventing
the misuse of pathogens: the need for global biosecurity standards.
Arms control today, June 2003.
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2003_06/tucker_june03.asp
Wheelis, Mark.
Biological
warfare at the 1346 Siege of Caffa.
Emerging infectious diseases, v. 8, Sept. 2002: 971-975.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol8no9/01-0536.htm
Wright, Laura.
New
study finds Agent Orange use was underestimated.
Scientific American.com, April 17, 2003.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000BAF8A-F589-1E9D-A9B3809EC588EEDF
Books
Biosecurity : limiting terrorist access to deadly pathogens
Tucker, Jonathan B. Washington, D.C., United States
Institute of Peace, 2003.
http://www.usip.org/pubs/peaceworks/pwks52.pdf
Bioterrorism
and Public Health: an Internet Resources Guide
http://www.emedguides.com/bioterrorism
Edited by John G. Bartlett, and others. Princeton, N.J., eMedguides.com,
Inc.; Montvale, N.J., Thomson Physicians' Desk Reference, c2002.
Chemical
and Biological Defense; DoD's Evaluation of Improved Garment
Materials
http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA351348
Washington, General Accounting Office, Aug. 1998. 19 p. ADA-351348.
GAO/NSIAD-98-214. (PDF Format; requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
Chemical
and Biological Terrorism: Research and Development to Improve
Civilian Medical Response
http://search.nap.edu/books/0309061954/html/index.html
Committee on R&D Needs for Improving Civilian Medical Response
to Chemical and Biological Terrorism Incidents, National Research Council, Washington,
National Academy Press, c1999.
Countering Bioterrorism: The Role of Science and Technology
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309086078/html/index.html
Panel on Biological Issues, Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism, National Research Council, Washington,
National Academy Press, 2002.
The Gathering Biological Warfare Storm (2nd Edition)
Davis, Jim A. and Barry R. Schneider. Maxwell Air
Force Base, Alabama, U.S. Air Force Counterproliferation Center, April 2002
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cpc-pubs/biostorm/cover.htm
Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309084814/html/index.html
Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism, National Research Council. Washington, DC, National Academy
Press, 2002.
Potential military chemical/biological agents and compounds.
http://www.mipt.org/pdf/Potential-Military-Chemical-Biological-Agents-Compounds.pdf
Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force - Multiservice Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures. January 2005
Recommendations
for the Disposal of Chemical Agents and Munitions
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309050464/html/
Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile
Disposal Program, National Research Council. Washington, DC, National Academy
Press, 1994.
A
Review of the Scientific Literature as it Pertains to Gulf War
illnesses
http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/library/rand_reports.html
Various authors. Santa Monica, Calif., Rand, [1998-c2001].
Textbook
of Military Medicine
http://www.bordeninstitute.army.mil/medaspofharshenvrnmntsvol2/default_index.htm
Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare, Office
of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army. Last Revision Date: May 1997. Virtual
Naval Hospital, Digital Library of Naval Medicine and Military Medicine.
Veterans and Agent Orange
http://books.nap.edu/catalog/10603.html
Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans
of
Exposure to Herbicides (Fourth Biennial Update, 2003).
The
War Next Time: Countering Rogue States and Terrorists Armed with Chemical
and Biological Weapons.
(2nd Edition)
Davis, Jim A. and Barry R. Schneider. Maxwell Air Force
Base, Alabama, U.S. Air Force Counterproliferation
Center,
April 2004.
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cpc-pubs/war_next_time/cover.htm
Technical Reports
Chemical
and biological defense; DoD's evaluation of improved garment
materials.
http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA351348
Washington, General Accounting Office, Aug. 1998. 19 p. ADA-351348.
GAO/NSIAD-98-214.
Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Terrorism:
The Threat According to the Current Unclassified Literature.
http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA404213
Washington,
D.C., Center for Counterproliferation Research, National Defense University,
31 May 2002. 47 p. ADA-404213
Includes extensive annotated bibliography: "The Threat of CBRN
Terrorism - Views from the Open Literature" pp.14-46.
Grotte, Jeffery H. Frequently
asked questions regarding biological detection.
http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA406047
Alexandria, Va., Institute for Defense Analysis, Nov. 2001.
27 p. ADA-406047.
Hancock, J. R., D'Agostino, P. A., and L. R. Provost. Sample
preparation and identification techniques for chemical warfare
and mid-spectrum agents.
http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA364876
Alberta, Canada, Defence Research Establishment Suffield, March
1999. 38 p. ADA-364876. A general survey for the NATO AC/225 LG/7-SIBCA Handbook,
Chapter 8.
Kraft. James E. U.S.
military role in countering the biological and chemical warfare
threat: attacking the enemy's will.
http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA348427
Washington, U.S. Dept. of Defense, 1999. 34 p. ADA-348427.
Smart, Jeffery. History
of the Army protective mask.
http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA376445
Natick, Mass., U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command,
Aug. 1999. 65 p. ADA-376445.
Yee, Eugene C. On
the theory of particle count detection with an application to
the triggering of biological warfare detection systems.
http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA375905
Alberta, Canada, Defence Research Establishment Suffield, Mar.
2000. 48 p. ADA375905
Other Documents
Chemical Weapons Convention
http://www.opcw.org/html/db/cwc/eng/cwc_frameset.html
Individual
Preparedness and Response to Chemical, Radiological, Nuclear,
and Biological Terrorist Attacks
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1731/
Davis, Lynn E., and others. RAND, 2003.
Individual preparedness is an important element of our nation's
strategy for homeland security. This report adopts a scenario-driven approach
that provides a rigorous way to identify actions-linked specifically to terrorist
attacks—individuals can take to protect their health and safety.
The Medical Aspects of Gas Warfare
http://www.vlib.us/medical/gaswar/gasindex.htm
Articles, extracts and excerpts from primary sources for World War I.
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Anthrax
Vaccine Immunization Program
http://www.anthrax.osd.mil/
The Department of Defense Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program
(AVIP). The compilation of important medical journal articles pertaining to Anthrax
and the Anthrax vaccine.
Army Magazine Green Book: Army Weapons and Equipment
http://www.ausa.org/www/greenbook.nsf/(all)/12B30F52D622575685256C4100765E9F?OpenDocument
Nuclear-Biological-Chemical (NBC) Defense Systems, October 2002.
Copyright © 2004 by The Association of the U.S. Army
Bioterrorism Planning and Response
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (HHS)
http://www.ahrq.gov/browse/bioterbr.htm
Link to web-assisted audio conference calls on Bioterrorism and Health System Preparedness, research projects, tools and resources, conference presentations, evidence reports, and agency press releases. Search and browse function-enabled.
The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/default.htm
U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services. This site has an index,
with pages on such topics as Biological
Agents, Chemical
Agents, Agents, Diseases,
and Threats and more, with detailed lists of links on each.
Chemical & Biological
Defense Information Analysis Center (CBIAC)
http://www.cbiac.apgea.army.mil
Department of Defense (DoD) Information Analysis Center (IAC),
the CBIAC serves as the focal point for DoD Chemical and Biological Defense (CBD)
scientific and technical information. It provides services to DoD organizations,
other government groups, and their approved contractors. Service to other parties
is limited to the publicly accessible information on this web site.
NIAID
Biodefense Research
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/biodefense/
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
biodefense Web site, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH); information
for biomedical researchers, the public, and the media.
U.S.
Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USARICD)
http://ccc.apgea.army.mil/default.htm
The Chemical Casualty Care Division (CCCD) of the United States
Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD) is one of six
medical research laboratories and institutes operated by the U. S. Army Medical
Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC). This site offers free access to a variety
of textbooks, handbooks, and articles online.
U.S.
Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID)
http://www.usamriid.army.mil/
Online resources include the library's catalog,
links to citations and full text of many publications, and a Related
Links page.
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Arms Control Association
http://www.armscontrol.org/
A national nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to
promoting public understanding of and support for effective arms control policies.
publishes Arms Control Today. Site has important documents and treaties, ACA
fact sheets, and relevant ACT news articles, features, and editorials organized
by subject. Online document Chemical-Biological
Arms Control.
Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute (CBACI)
http://www.cbaci.org/
A private, nonprofit, nonpartisan policy research organization
established in 1993 to address the challenges to global security and stability
in the early 21st century, with a special, but not exclusive focus on the elimination
of chemical and biological weapons.
The Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project (CBWNP)
http://www.stimson.org/cbw/?SN=BB2001112951
Since 1993, the project has focused on issues related to the
Chemical Weapons Convention, as well as the Biological & Toxin Weapons Convention,and
issued reports on topics including weapons destruction technologies, the utility
of export controls, terrorism involving chemical and biological weapons, and
the status of chemical and biological weapons programs in various countries.
Publishes the CBW Chronicle.
Chemical and Biological Arms Control Program (Federation of American Scientists)
http://www.fas.org/bwc/index.html
The Federation of American Scientists Chemical and Biological
Arms Control Program covers all aspects of chemical
and biological weapons and their control, concentrating on
efforts to prevent the development and use of biological weapons (BW)
and the further proliferation of BW programs.
National
Academy of Sciences
http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer
A private, non-profit, self-perpetuating society of distinguished
scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance
of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare.
Organisation
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
http://www.opcw.org/index.html
The mission of the OPCW is to implement the provisions of the
Chemical Weapons Convention;web site has links to details on chemical disarmament,
implementing the chemical weapons ban. All important documents are posted in
fulltext, including the Geneva
Protocol, the Chemical
Weapons Convention, the Convention
on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological
(Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, and more.
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
http://www.sipri.se/
Conducts research on conflict and cooperation for international
peace and security; a public website where researchers, policy makers and the
interested public can browse through the results of research activities. Content
includes lists of publications, fact sheets, and research report abstracts. The Library has
an online catalog, searchable article database, and other resources.
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Center
for Biosecurity
http://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). Includes details
on BW agents, Biosecurity Bulletin archives, publications (some fulltext), Reading
List and more.
Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies
http://www.hopkins-biodefense.org/index.html
Effective November 1, 2003, the faculty and staff formerly
of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies are now affiliated
with the Center for Biosecurity of
the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC).
Center
for Infectious Disease Research & Policy
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/index.html
Academic Health Center -- University of Minnesota. Detailed
information sources on bioterrorism, biosecurity, food safety. Includes a Hot
Topics link with current news, selected readings, and more.
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All the Virology on the WWW
David M. Sander, Ph.D.
Phenomenal list of resources with links to all information sources on viruses and virology on the web. See especially Biological Weapons and Warfare.
Anthrax Vaccine and Biological Weapons Issues
http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/anthrax/anthrax.htm
Compiled by Melinda M. Mosley, Bibliographer, Air University Library
Maxwell AFB, AL. June 2000.
Biological Warfare Collection
American Society for Microbiology
The ASM Archives collects materials relating to the scientific and policy aspects
of biological warfare. These include bibliographies of technical reports, articles,
books, legal materials, and a chronology.
Chemical
and Biological Warfare (CBW) Tracer Bullet 03-1
The Library of Congress
Research guide that includes a brief introduction to the topic,
lists of resources and strategies for finding more. See especially the list of Internet
Resources.
Nuclear Biological Chemical
http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/nbc/nbccont.htm
Compiled by Linda K. Colding, Bibliographer, Air University Library
Maxwell AFB, AL. January 1998.
Nuclear Biological Chemical Supplement
http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/nbcs/nbcstoc.htm
Compiled by Sandhya Malladi, Bibliographer, Air University Library,
Maxwell AFB, AL. October 2001.
Chemical Warfare from WWI to Al-Qaeda
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3846
Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Tucker, senior researcher at the Monterey Institute's Center for Non-proliferation Studies discussed his new book "War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda" in a program sponsored by the Science, Technology and Business Division.
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