Search for an expert...

My conquest for an expert has now ended... I have finally contacted an expert and have set up a time for a conference call to talk to him.

Podcast

I have found a podcast on Biological Warfare. This podcast was made by Arizona State University and is called Bio(In)Security: Rhetoric and Technology in the Age of Bioterrorism. It is 30 minutes long and talks about how we got to this present historical moment of bioterrorism. It says how in the mid 1900s we began working on counter-bioterrorism defense. According to the University of Pittsburg Medical Centers, since the end of 2001 14.5 billion dollars have been spent in the area of civilian bioterrorism defense. This podcast had much more statistical information to back up any claim they made.

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http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/international_security/v028/28.3koblentz.html#

http://www.ph.ucla.edu/EPI/bioter/biowarfareexpertsques.html

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1122303

http://www.acronym.org.uk/bwc/index.htm

http://www.lanl.gov/news/index.php/fuseaction/home.story/story_id/999

http://www.denison.edu/offices/publicaffairs/pressreleases/alibek.html

http://cns.miis.edu/research/cbw/

http://www.cissm.umd.edu/papers/display.php?id=393


These are a couple websites I found on biological warfare and I'm hoping to find experts from these websites.

Searching for experts.

Ive been searching around for a while now looking for experts to contact. The only problem is... there arent many. If any one knows or is an expert regarding biological warfare (weapons, etc.) please contact me. Other then that I have found out more about how biological warfare can be used in terrorism (aka. Bioterrorism). I found out that Biological weapons are EXTREMELY hard to detect and have the capability to kill small towns. Not only do they kill the people in the citys (slowly and painfully), these weapons also kill agriculture there. This means biological warfare has a huge longterm effect.

Biological Warfare

I stumbled across a blog about how biological warfare is not a new thing. The article said that the use of microorganisms and toxins has been used throughout history. One thing that was made clear from all of my research is that the history of biological warfare is difficult to assess because of a number of confounding factors. Another interesting thing I found interesting was that it said that biological warfare has been renounced by 140 nations.

Check this article out: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/278/5/412