The JOURNAL

USA v Canada: Economics, Politics, Culture


CONTENTS
of # 9 (417), September 2004, Issue


The most interesting material in this issue is the article of Ms Larissa P. Zhiganova - Candidate of biological sciences, Senior scientific researcher of ISCRAN:

BIOTERRORISM AND AGROTERRORISM -
REAL THREAT TO THE SECURITY OF SOCIETY

In this article you will find answers to questions:

Why the biological weapon can become one of the most real means of carrying out of terrorist acts?

How many confirmed cases of illegal use of biological agents were registered in the 20th century?

How many of them appeared the acts of terrorism?

How many victims were among civilians?

How many proceedings have been instituted in the American courts against the bioterrorists?

What do you know about the investigation of cases of dispatch of the letters, containing the incitant of anthrax, which have resulted in fatal outcomes?

How many underground biolaboratories have the American special troops found out in Afghanistan and Iraq?

Whether the American authorities have presented the convincing proofs that the Al-Kaida insurgents were involved in distribution of the mentioned illness?

What countries do the U.S.A. count today as probably distributing chemical and biological weapon?

How many countries have signed and ratified the Geneva Protocol of 1925 - the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction?

In what country were conducted the most intensive researches on development of the biological weapon during the period between two World Wars?

How many human beings were lost as a result of these experiments?

When did the U.S.A. start to carry out their program on the development of biological weapon?

What do you know about the biological experiments which have been carried out by the U.S. Armed Forces on the American population?

Whether the biological weapon has any relation to the disease which has received the name of Persian Gulf Syndrome of War?

What is the agroterrorism and why it's so dangerous?

What basic measures are undertaken by the states for the repulsion of bioterrorism?

What do you know about the Concept of Russia's Biological Security till 2012?

How many countries have signed and ratified the International Convention on the Prohibitions of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical

Weapons and on their Destruction (1993)?

What decisions did the Special Conference of 1996 adopt in relation to the above mentioned Convention?

How have the representatives of farmaceutical industry of Western Europe, Japan and the U.S.A. considered decisions of this Conference?


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