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1 | 2 | 3 | Next1918 Flu Resulted In Current Lineage Of H1N1 Swine Influenza Viruses 1 Citation sciencedaily ScienceDaily (May 1, 2009) ? In 1918 a human influenza virus known as the Spanish flu spread through the central United States while a swine respiratory disease occurred concurrently. A Kansas State University researcher has found that the virus causing the pandemic was able to infect and replicate in pigs, but did not kill them, , technorati.com
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New York drill for possible nuke war 1 Citation presstvUS security authorities have conducted a semi-clandestine nuclear fallout drill in the City of New York in order to be prepared ?for the worst.?The NYC Police Department (NYPD) in unison with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) carried out a massive almost-covert anti-nuclear exercise codenamed ?New York, you have a problem? in order to gauge the metropolitan promptness in responding to such attacks.According to an AP report on Friday, hundreds of NYPD officers and FBI agents partic, technorati.com
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1 Citation The NY Times talks about the whole crazy issue of talking about pandemic influenza issues. Who really knows what they mean by "pandemic?" ?There is a lot of misinformation in the medical literature, and it is really quite hard to figure out what is and what is not a pandemic,? said Dr. David M. Morens, an epidemiologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who has been studying the history of pandemics. The word implies the rapid spread of an infectious disease to, technorati.com
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LüKeX 2010: CBRN-Tatmittel im Vordergrund 1 Citation Berlin, (sc). Die Androhung und Durchführung von Terroranschlägen mit CBRN-Tatmitteln (?Schmutzige Bombe?) stehen im Vordergrund der aktuellen LÜKEX-Übung 09/10. Ziel ist es die Koordinierung zwischen Bund und Ländern im Katastrophenfall zu verbessern, sagte BBK-Präsident Christoph Unger bei der Vorstellung der Jahresberichte seines Amtes und des Technischen Hilfswerks (THW) am Dienstag in Berlin. Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) sagte, die Explosion mit ?verschmutztem Material? sei, technorati.com
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1 Citation Here's a tale of two cities, Hermiston, Oregon, and Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It's the worst of times for Hermiston - a judge denied the local environmental activists their bid to stop the Army from incinerating mustard agent . The petitioners feel that the burning of mustard agent is harmful to the environment and the people who live near the depot, where the chemical agent disposal facility is located. The unknown levels of mercury in the mustard when burned and released into the atmosphere i, technorati.com
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Conservative Hawks Fail on Nukes 1 Citation I think it's great how the Wall Street Journal is always willing to entertain the passionate mutterings of neocons and conservatives when they feel like telling us what we ought to be doing in defense. It's really too easy to mock them. Here's Richard "what failed Iraq strategy" Perle and his buddy Sen. Jon "where's my majority" Kyl. In the nuclear-free world that ended in 1945 there was neither peace nor security. Since then there have indeed been many wars but none has come close to the, technorati.com
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1 Citation From the dusty drawers of history comes this story about chemical warfare research during World War II. There were no holds barred in the hunt for offensive measures to keep the Germans off of British soil. So here's one attempt : Research scientists thought clouds of poison darts, blasted from canisters high above the battlefield, could be even more lethal against enemy troop concentrations than high-explosive shells. Mustard gas compounds in the needles would ensure anyone whose skin wa, technorati.com
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Strategic Ambiguity Isn't All That 1 Citation Our SecState Hillary Clinton tells us that "there would be retaliation" if Iran attacks Israel with a nuclear weapon, but she won't say exactly how. Does anyone question that the US government would at least prepare nuclear weapons for use against Iran if Israel's nukes didn't destroy Tehran and several other cities first? Clinton was asked whether her statement as a presidential candidate that Iran would ?incur massive retaliation? for attacking Israel is now official U.S. policy. ?I think, technorati.com
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?Accidentally? release nuclear info? 1 Citation U.S. Accidentally Releases List of Nuclear Sites - NYTimes.comBy WILLIAM J. BROADThe federal government mistakenly made public a 266-page report, its pages marked ?highly confidential,? that gives detailed information about hundreds of the nation?s civilian nuclear sites and programs, including maps showing the precise locations of stockpiles of fuel for nuclear weapons.The publication of the document was revealed Monday in an online newsletter devoted to issues of federal secrecy. That set off, technorati.com
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Emergency services learn how to cope with chemical warfare 1 Citation Volunteers were issued with special suits before they were walked through the decontamination shower unit, watched by police, firefighters, ambulance staff and doctors. After leaving the shower, patients were then be given clean clothing and allowed to enter the hospital.In the event of a nuclear leak or chemical warfare, the multi-agency decontamination procedure would be implemented in a bid to reduce cross-contamination and treat affected patients quickly without risk to staff.Read full artic, technorati.com
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