Chemical and Biological Weapons
Threat Assessments and Related Material
- National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats, National Security Council, November 2009
- Department of Defense Annual Report to Congress on Chemical and Biological Warfare Defense, April 2011
- Department of Defense Chemical and Biological Defense Program Annual Report to Congress, May 2008
- Department of Defense Chemical and Biological Defense Program Annual Report to Congress, April 2007
- Department of Defense Chemical and Biological Defense Program Annual Report to Congress, March 2006
- Department of Defense Chemical and Biological Defense Program Annual Report to Congress, March 2005
- Department of Defense Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense Program Annual Report to Congress, May 2004 (8.5 MB PDF file)
- Department of Defense Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense Program FY2003-2005 Performance Plan, May 2004 (960 KB PDF file)
- Department of Defense Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense Program Overview, April 2004 (4.2 MB PDF file)
- US-Armenia Agreement on Preventing Proliferation of Biological Weapons, September 2010
- Analysis of Chemical Warfare Agents: General Overview, LC-MS Review, In-House LC-ESI-MS Methods and Open Literature Bibliography, Defense Research and Development Canada, March 2006
- The "Worried Well" Response to CBRN Events: Analysis and Solutions by Fred P. Stone, USAF Counterproliferation Center, June 2007
- Next Generation Bioweapons: The Technology of Genetic Engineering Applied to Biowarfare and Bioterrorism by Michael J. Ainscough, USAF Counterproliferation Center, April 2002
- Biodefense Crossing the Line by Milton Leitenberg, James Leonard and Richard Spertzel, from the journal Politics and the Life Sciences, 2004
- SARS and Public Health in Ontario, Interim Report of the SARS Commission (Canada), April 15, 2004 (900 KB PDF file)
- Lessons from the Anthrax Attacks: Implications for U.S. Bioterrorism Preparedness by David Heyman, CSIS, under contract to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, April 2002 (2 MB PDF file) (released by DoD on March 15, 2004)
- Development of a Viral Biological-threat Bioinformatics Resource, University of Alabama at Birmingham, report for the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Ft. Detrick, MD, October 2003
- NIAID Biodefense Research Agenda for CDC Category A Agents, Progress Report, August 2003
- Anthrax in America: A Chronology and Analysis of the Fall 2001 Attacks, Center for Counterproliferation Research, November 2002
- Health Aspects of Biological and Chemical Weapons (Unofficial draft), World Health Organization, released September 2001.
- Bioterrorism and Biocrimes: The Illicit Use of Biological Agents Since 1900 by W. Seth Carus, August 1998 (rev. February 2001)
- Chemical/Biological/Radiological Incident Handbook Director of Central Intelligence, Interagency Intelligence Committee on Terrorism, Community Counterterrorism Board - October 1998
- BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS 27 April 1998 -- Voice of America
BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS EXPERT COLONEL DAVID FRANZ SAYS TERRORISTS PROBABLY WOULD REQUIRE HELP FROM A GOVERNMENT TO USE GERMS AS A MASS KILLER.
- THE WORLDWIDE NUCLEAR, BIOLOGICAL, AND CHEMICAL
WARFARE THREAT US ARMY CHEMICAL SCHOOL - 21 August 1998
- Adversarial Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons John F. Reichart Joint Forces Quarterly Spring 1998 [271 kb PDF]
- New Biological Warfare Agents Through Advances in Biotechnology -- Department of Defense - 09 September 1997
- THE THREAT OF CHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL TERRORISM Ron Purver COMMENTARY No. 60 Canadian Security Intelligence Service August 1995
- CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS: THE POOR MAN'S BOMB Draft General Report North Atlantic Assembly International Secretariat 4 October 1996
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- Proliferation Profile Assessment of Emerging Biological Weapons Threats Michael G. Archuleta; Michael S. Bland; Tsu-Pin Duann; Alan B. Tucker; Conrad A. Widman (Faculty Advisor) Air Command and Staff College 1996 -- only through the collective analysis of all the sub-systems of a BW program will conclusive evidence of the program be found.
- THE IMPACT OF NBC Proliferation on Doctrine and Operations Robert G. Joseph Joint Forces Quarterly Autumn 1996
- The Continuing Threat from Weapons of Mass Destruction By Dr. Gordon C. Oehler, Director, Nonproliferation Center to the Senate Armed Services Committee - 27 March 1996
- Implications of Soviet Use of Chemical and Toxin Weapons for U.S. Security Interests, Special National Intelligence Estimate, 1983
- Soviet Chemical and Biological Warfare Capabilities (1969), National Intelligence Estimate, 1969
- The Enigma of Soviet BW, Studies in Intelligence, 1965
- The Probability of Soviet Employment of BW and CW in the Event of Attacks Upon the US, National Intelligence Estimate, 1951
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Updated June 21, 2012