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1997Topics: Information warfare ( 4
), Logistics (5), Resources on the Internet (2, 6
), Strategy (1, 3)
- A world of secrets - the uses and limits of intelligence
by Walter Laqueur (A Twentieth Century Fund Book - Basic Books Inc. Publisher, New York, 1985)
Cancer resources on the Internet - M. Sandra Wood and Eric P. Delozier, Editors (The Haworth Press, Inc. - New York and London, 1997)
If Aristotle ran General Motors by Tom Morris (Henry Holth and Company, New York, 1997)
Information warfare (second edition) by Winn Schwartau (Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 1996)
Enterprise logistics in the information era by Noel P. Greis and John D. Kasarda - California Management Review 39 (1997), 55 - 78
The Internet handbook for writers, researchers and journalists by Mary McGuire, Linda Stilborne, Melinda McAdams, Laurel Hyatt (The Guilford Press, New York - London, 1997)
1998 Topics: Biotechnology ( 3,
4, 5
. 6,
7, 8,
10, 11
, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
), Information warfare (19), Investor's Guide (2), Marketing (9), Strategy (1, 18)
- The search for digital excellence
by James P. Ware, Judith Gebauer, Amir Hartman, Malu Roldan (McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., New York, 1998)
Every investor's guide to high-tech stocks & mutual funds by Michael Murphy (Broadway Books, New York, 1998)
The biotech century by Jeremy Rifkin (Jeremy P. Tarcher / Putnam a member of Penguin Putnam Inc., New York, 1998)
Guide to human genome computing edited by Martin J. Bishop (Academic Press, San Diego, CA - USA, 1998)
Statistical genomics by Ben Hui Liu (CRC Press, Boca Raton New York - USA, 1998)
Cancer treatments - TIME - May 18, 1998 - A selection of the websites devoted to cancer is reported.
Who's who in genes - BusinessWeek - May 25 (1998), 71 - 72 .Here are some key players that want to unlock the secrets
of genes: AXYS, GENSET, HUMAN GENOME SCIENCES, HYSEQ, INCYTE, MERCK, MYRIAD.
Biotech's secret garden - The Economist - May 30 (1998), 75 - 77
Asia: the global impact - BusinessWeek - June 1 (1998), 52 - 66
Biology in silico - Forbes - June 1 (1998), 119 - 120
Biotech bodies by Catherine Arnst and John Carey - BusinessWeek - July 27 (1998), 42 - 49 .Some of the companies with
big plans in the area of tissue-engineering are the following: ADVANCED TISSUE SCIENCES, ATRIX LABORATORIES, BIOMATRIX, CREATIVE BIOMOLECULES, CYTOTHERAPEUTICS, GUILFORD PHARMACEUTICALS, GENZYME
TISSUE, INTEGRA LIFESCIENCES, LIFECELL, ORGANOGENESIS, ORTEC INTERNATIONAL, REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS.
Microchip arrays put DNA on the spot by R.F. Service - Science 282 (1998), 396 - 399
Coming soon: the pocket DNA sequencer - by R. F. Service - Science 282 (1998) 399 - 401
Fomenting a revolution, in miniature - by I. Amato - Science 282 (1998) 402 - 405
Gene Readers - by I. Wickelgren - Popular Science (Nov. 1998) 57 - 61- Places where the chips (also called arrays) are crafted: Affimetrix (Santa Clara, CA, USA),
Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne, IL, USA) and Russian Academy of Science (Moscow), Hyseq (Sunnyvale, CA, USA) Incyte Pharmaceuticals (Palo Alto, CA, USA), Nanogen (San Diego, CA)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, TN, USA)
The chips are coming by W. Wells at <http://www.gene.com/ae/AB/BA/biochip.html>
Company says it has made human cells revert to the embryonic state - New York Times, November 12 (A24) . The
company, Advanced Cell Technology, said the cells might be (i) grown into a clone of their donor and (ii) guided into becoming any of the body´s tissue types for transplantation.
Pit Bull - Lessons from Wall Street´s Champion Trader - by Martin "Buzzy" Schwartz with Dave Morine and Paul Flint - Harper Business (1998) -
"This is the true story of how Schwartz became the best of the best , of the people and places he discovered along the way, and of the trader´s tricks and techniques he used to make his millions."
The next world war - Computers are the weapons and the front line is everywhere - by James Adam - Simon & Schuster (1998)
"War has evolved through land, sea, air, space and now information. We believe that information is just another battle space."

1999
Topics: Biotechnology ( 4
, 9, 10, 13, 14, 18), Economics ( 5)
, Information warfare ( 1,
6, 12
, 17), Investor's guide ( 15), Resources on the Internet( 2, 8, 19), Strategy ( 3, 7, 8, 11,
16)
- Information assurance: legal, regulatory, policy and organization considerations
- 3rd edition (17 September 1997)-
Department of Defense USA. - This report will assist people in formulating a comprehensive strategy to protect information, information systems and information-based processes in support of Joint Vision 2010
. The document can be found in soft copy on the INFOWAR.com homepage.
The Internet - edited by Gray Young - The H.W. Wilson Company - New York - Dublin (1998)
Judo Strategy by David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano in:Harvard Business Review (January - February 1999),71-81 -
"Smart start-ups can avoid those conflicts by moving quickly to uncontested ground and, when that´s no
longer possible, turning dominant players´ strengths against them.The authors call this competitive approach judo strategy (rapid movement, flexibility, leverage)."
The Electronic Scholar: enhancing research productivity with technology by Dave L. Edyburn - Prentice Hall - New Jersey - Ohio (1999)
New rules for the new economy 10 radical strategies for a connected world by Kevin Kelly (1998) - Viking Penguin
The Looming Threat of Bioterrorism by Donald A. Henderson - Science 283 (1999), 1279 - 1282 - Important distinctions between chemical and biological terrorism are reported.
Managing knowledge. A practical web-based approach by Wayne Applehans, Alden Globe, Greg Laugero -
Addison-Wesley Information Technology Series (Capers Jones, Series Editor) - Addison -Wesley (1999) - The knowledge
architecture identifies three components: (i) technology, (ii) content (with better trust in the employees' expertise), (iii) people (suppliers and consumers of the technology content. "
You'll know that managing knowledge is producing a positive ROI when you see (1) measurable efficiencies in product development, production, sales, and service cycles; (2) Improved
decision-making at the front lines in the development, production, sales, and support cycles; (3) Better ability to get new
partners...., (4) Improved morale because employees are making more effective decisions; (5) increasing customer loyalty due to better trust in the employees' expertise." (page 32)
Knowledge and special libraries edited by James M. Matarazzo, Suzanne D. Connolly - Butterworth Heinemann (1998)
Handbook of Biomaterials Evaluation: Scientific, Technical and Clinical Testing of Implant Materials edited by Andreas F. von Recum- Taylor and Francis (1999 Second Edition)
The book contains the following sections: Bulk characterization, Surface characterization, Toxicological evaluations, In Vitro assessment of safety, Active implants,
Implantology, Soft tissue histology, Hard tissue histology, Regulations, Clinical trials.
Silica Aerogels at: Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Commercially available aerogels at
Marketech International Inc.
The Valuation of Technology - Business and Financial Issues in R & D by F.Peter Boer - John Wiley & Sons, Inc. - New York (1999) -
"Technology is the application of knowledge to useful objectives". The flow of this book is motivated by
its goal: to show how R & D creates economic value. The most important intellectual source for this work is the classic book
"The management of innovative technological corporations" by Simon Ramo - John Wiley & Sons, Inc. - New York (1980)
Hiding Crimes in Cyberspace by Dorothy E. Denning and William E. Baugh, Jr. (1999) at: <
http://cryptome.org/hiding-db.htm>
Managing Agricultural Biotechnology edited by J.J. Cohen (1999)
Transgenic Animals in agriculture edited by J.D. Murray, G.B. Anderson, A.M. Oberbauer and M.M. McGloughlin - CABI Publishing (1999)
Application and use of transgenic animal models
in agriculture, biomedical, biotechnological and veterinary disciplines |
Animal production |
Strategies for therapy of animal and human diseases |
Genetic therapy |
Disease resistance |
Testing & screening for products |
Product development ("molecular farming") * |
Human organ replacement (xenotransplantation) |
* Two U.S. companies [GeneWorks (Ann Arbor, Michigan) and AviGenics (Athens, Georgia)] have already produced genetically
modified birds that can lay eggs containing drugs, proteins and antibodies (from: New Scientist, November 13, 1999)..
- Science and Technology as Predictors of Stock Performance
by Zhen Deng, Baruch Lev and Francis Narin (1999) in : Association for Investment Management and Research (May - June), 20 - 32
- Conceptualizing Technological Change
by Govindan Parayil (1999) - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. - Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford
- Loud and Clear - The most secret of secret agencies operates under outdated laws
by James Bamford (1999) in Washington Post, Nov. 14 Page B01
- Beyond Evolution: the genetically altered future of plants, animals, the earth and ... humans
by Michael W. Fox (1999) - The Lyons Press
- History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843 to the Present
by Christos J.P. Moschovitis, Hilary Poole, Tami Schuyler
and Theresa M. Senft (1999), ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara (CA), Denver (CO, Oxford (England)

2000
Topics: Biotechnology ( 6
, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17
, 18), Security ( 1, 10), Simulation ( 11), Strategy ( 2, 3, 4, 5, 16,
19, 20)
- Peter Norton's Network Security Fundamentals
by Peter Norton and Mike Stockman, SAMS (a division of Macmillan USA) (1999)
- Knowledge engineering and management - The commoKADS methodology
by Guus Schreiber, Hans Akkermans,
Anjo Anjewierden, Robert de Hoog, Nigel Shadbolt, Walter Van de Velde, and Bob Wielinga, A Bradford Book, The MIT
Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London (England) (2000) - For those who want to learn more about CommonKADS, this material is accessible through the website at <
http://www.commonkads.uva.nl>.
- The kept university
by Eyal Press and Jennifer Washburn in: The Atlantic Monthly, March 2000, 39 - 54 -
"Commercially sponsored research is putting at risk the paramount value of higher education.... Universities themselves
are behaving more and more like for -profit companies". The online version is available at the following address:
http://the atlantic.com/cgi-bin/o/issues/2000/03/press.htm in four parts. The linkage is the first and has links to the other parts.
- The Knowledge Management Toolkit
by Amrit Tiwana , Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Saddle Tiver, NJ (U.S.A.) (2000). To learn more about this title, point to
www.kmtoolkit.com
- Knowledge and Strategy
by Michael H. Zack (ed.), Butterworth - Heinemann, Boston (U.S.A.) (1999). See the presentation given at the 2nd World Congress on Management of Intellectual Capital
- The Virus Within
by Nicholas Regush, A Dutton Book, New York (2000). The Author explores how "the environment
around us acts upon an individual's DNA through a process of gene reshuffling" (Howard Urnovitz).
- Agrobiodiversity: characterization, utilization and management
- Edited by D. Wood and J.M.Lenne' - CABI
Publishing, CAB International (1999), Wallingford, Oxon, UK; information about the Crop Protection Programme (CPP) can be found via the Internet at
http://www.nrinternational.co.uk
- Origin and evolution of the vertebrate immune system
- Edited by L. Du Pasquier and G.W. Litman (2000)- Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York
- XENO: the promise of transplanting animal organs into humans
by David C.K. Cooper and Robert P. Lanza (2000) -
Oxford University Press - Documents on this topic can be obtained from the FDA Home Page: http://www.fda.gov
- Intrusion Detection
by Rebecca Gurley Bace (2000) - Macmillan Technical Publishing, Indianapolis (IN, U.S.A.).
"Intrusion detection is the process of monitoring the events occurring in a computer system or network, analyzing them for
signs of security problems....The term intrusion detection is also used by the military to refer to systems that monitor
physical entities (such as communication cables) for evidence of tampering or other physical alterations. Military standards describe system functions and benchmarks for this area. In this book intrusion detection
refers to the monitoring, detection, and response functions that target activity in computer systems and networks." World Wide Web resources are listed.
- Simulation Modeling Methods
by H. James Harrington and Kerim Tumay (2000), McGraw - Hill , New York (NY,
U.S.A.) - "Simulation is a means of experimenting with a detailed model of a real system to determine how the system will
respond to changes in its structure, environment, or underlying assumptions." [Charles Harrell and Kerim Tumay, "Simulation Made Easy: A Manager's Guide" (Norcross, GA: Industrial Engineering and Management Press, 1995)]
Approach to Process Simulation
- The future of computing:
"Organic molecules can be exploited as electronic switches. Even the constituents of one cell,
including DNA, RNA an proteins, can be pressed into service as logic circuits" See the following articles published on TECHNOLOGY REVIEW (2000), May - June:
- The end of Moore'law
by Charles C. Mann - page 42 - 48 (Moore's Law: The power of technology doubles every 9 - 18 months and its march forward sees no end)
- Quantum computing
by M. Mitchell Waldrop - pages 60 - 66
- Biological computing
by Simson L. Garfinkel - pages70 - 77
- DNA computing
by Antonio Regalado - pages 80 - 84
Nanomedicine (Vol. 1 - Base capabilities) by Robert A. Freitas, Jr. (the book is available on the Internet)
Who wrote the book of life? A history of the genetic code by Lily E. Kay (2000) - Stanford University press, Stanford (CA, U.S.A.)
Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology Vol. 40, 2000 (Annual Reviews, CA, U.S.A.). We suggest the following articles:
Sequencing the entire genomes of free-living organisms: the foundation of pharmacology in the new millennium, by S. Broder and J.C. Venter (pages 97 - 132)
Drug discovery in the new millennium, by E.H. Ohlstein et al (pages 177 - 191)
The impact of genomics on drug discovery, by C.Debouck and B. Metcalf (pages 193 - 208)
Simulation of clinical trials, by H.C. Kimko et al (pages 209 - 234)
The impact of genomics-based technologies on drug safety evaluation, by J.F. Waring and R. G. Ulrich (pages 335 - 352)
Best Truth - Intelligence in the information age by Bruce D. Berkowitz and Allan E. Goodman (2000) - Yale University Press ( New Haven and London)
Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering by Lisa Yount (2000), FactsOnFile, Inc., New York (N.Y., U.S.A.)
The biology of animal stress - Basic principles and implications for animal welfare by G.P. Moberg and J.A. Mench (2000), CABI Publishing, Wallington (U.K.) - New York (NY, U.S.A.)
The peloponnesian wars by Thucydides (translated by Benjamin Jowett, edited by P.A. Brunt) Twayne Publisher, Inc.
New York, U.S.A. In particular: The Melian Dialogue: the freedom, the sense of honour, the safe rule, the interstate relations (Book V, pages 179 - 187).
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (Translation and commentary by Nihon Services Corp: Bradford J.
Brown, Yuko Kashiwagi, William H. Barrett and Eisuke Sasagawa), Bantam Books, New York - Toronto - London - Sydney - Auckland (1982). A translation made by Victor Harris is available on the Internet ( http://www.samurai.com/5rings/ )

2001
Topics: Biotechnology ( 13 , 14 ), Business Integration (
6 ), e-Commerce (
8 ), Computer science ( 1 , 18 , 19 ) , Cryptography ( 11 , 12 , 15 ) , Law of the Internet ( 4 , 5
) , Security ( 2 , 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 18
, 19 ) ) , Strategy ( 7 ), Terrorism ( 16 , 20 )
- A First Course in FUZZY LOGIC
by Hung T. Nguyen and Elbert A. Walker; Chapman & Hall/CRC (Second Edition)
Boca Raton, London, New York, Washington D.C. (2000) - "It is an introduction to the theory of fuzzy sets. Fuzzy sets
are mathematical objects modeling the vagueness present in our natural language when we describe phenomena that do not
have sharply defined boundaries. ... Fuzzy set theory provides a machinery for carrying out approximate reasoning
processes when available information is uncertain, incomplete, imprecise, or vague. Whith the emergence of new tools in the
area of computetional intelligence, ..this new theory is a welcome addition to the repertoire of appropriate tools. This is
specially true when the intrinsic property of fuzziness and the heterogeneity of objects under study have to be taken into
account in order to do a better job of representing knowledge-fitting data. The success of this methodology has been
demonstrated in a variety of fields, such as control of complex system, where mathematical models are difficult to specify;
in expert systems, where rules expressing knowledge and facts are linguistic in nature; and even in some areas of statistics,
exemplified by categorical data analysis, where classes of objects are more fuzzy than crisp, and where the variability across objects needs to be modeled." (Hung T. Nguyen and Helbert A. Walker, 1999)
International Crime Treat Assessment
(December 2000) - This Global assessment was prepared by a US Government
interagency working group in support of and pursuant to the President's International Crime Control Strategy.
Representatives from the Central Intelligence Agency; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Drug Enforcement Administration;
US Customs Service; US Secret Service; Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; National Drug Intelligence Center; the
Departments of State, the Treasury, Justice, and Transportation; the Office of National Drug Control Policy; and the National Security Council participated in the drafting of this assessment.
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algoritms and Source Code in C
by Bruce Schneier (1994), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York - Chichester - Brisbane - Toronto - Singapore
Law of the Internet by F. Lawrence Street (1997), Lexis Law Publishing, Charlottesville, Virginia
Law of the Internet by George B. Delta and Jeffrey H. Matsuura (2000), Aspen Law & Business - Chapter 9
"Commerce": Transactions over the Internet, Contracts for The Sale of Goods, Electronic Commerce
Integration Managers: Special Leaders for Special Time by Ronald N. Ashkenas and Suzanne C. Francis (2000) ,
Harvard Business Review, November -December, 108 - 116 - The Authors have focused the attention "on managing the integration of acquired companies. But the kind of leadership" here described "has wider implications".
Strategy and the Internet by Michael E. Porter (2001), Harvard Business Review, March, 63 - 78. "The winners will be
those that view the Internet as a complement to, not a cannibal of, traditional ways of competing.........Only by integrating
the Internet into overall strategy will this powerful new technology become an equally powerful force for competitive advantage."
e-Profit - High Payoff Strategies for Capturing the E-Commerce Edge by Peter S. Cohan (2000) - Amacon (American
Management Association, New York - The book presents the following five key concepts of e- commerce: (i) strategic
balance sheet analysis, (ii) competitive opportunity and threat analysis (gap analysis), (iii) e-commerce risk evaluation, (iv)
enterprise value assessment, (v) e-commerce portfolio analysis. In particilar, the strategic balance sheet analysis in focused
on the intangible assets (customer relationships, customer information, supply purchasing volume, technical service information) , making the following considerations:
- which application (for example: web-based selling, web-based self service,...) the company needs to develop to extract value from that specific intangible asset
- the impact of the e-commerce application on the company's profits.
The ultimate internet terrorist by Robert Merkle (1998), Paladin Press, Boulder, Colorado); a good reference is: The
Avenger's Frontpage (http://www.ekran.no/html/revenge/). (Note: please consider the difference between encoded and
encrypted: a "code" is a substitution scheme for entire words and / or phrases; an encryption protocol (= cypher) substitutes individual letters with a standardized mathematical formula. (page 68 of the book)
CyberShock (surviving hackers, phreakers, identity thieves, Internet terrorists and weapons of mass disruption) by Winn Schwartau (2000), Thunder's Mouth Press, New York
The end of the code war? in: The Economist (2001), June 23, 76 - 77 The possible use of quantum mechanics to encrypt messages)
An introductionj to cryptography by Richard A. Mollin (2001), Chapman & Hall / CRC, Boca Raton (website: http://www.math.ucalgary.ca/~ramollin/ )
Opportunities in biotechnology for future army applications - Board of Army Science and Technology (2001), National Acad Press (Washington, DC, U.S.A.) (web site: http://books.nap.edu/books/0309075556/html/index.html )
Anthrax in: Nature (November 8, 2001)
Chaffing and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption by Roland L. Rivest at http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/chaffing.txt ; http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/publications.html The paper introduces a new technique, called "chaffing and winnowing" for achieving confidentiality, in addition to the major techniques that are:
steganography and encryption. Examples of using authentication to achieve confidentiality occur: in baseball and in the Rex
Stout's novel "The doorbell rang (a Nero Wolfe mystery) (Bantam Books, New York, U.S.A., 1965)
The science of terrorism : (i) the biology of anthrax, (ii) the physics of the 2001 World Trade Center terrorism at:
http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/index.html
The Great Game - The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkik (1992), Kodansha International, New
York-Tokyo-London
Maximum Security - A Hacker's Guide to Protecting Your Internet Site and Network (Second Edition) by Anonymous
(1998) SAMS, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A. Difference between a Hacker and a Cracker - Mens Rea (page 74) "Applying
mens rea (= the mental condition in which criminal intent exists) to the hacker - cracker equation, it seems simple enough the
difference between the two activities. If the suspect unwittingly penetrated a computer system (and did so by methods that
any law-abiding citizen would have employed at the time)there is no mens rea and therefore no crime. However, if the
suspect was aware that a security breach was underway (and he or she knowingly employed sophisticated methods of
implementing that breach) mens rea exists and a crime has been committed. By this measure, at least from a legal point of
view, the former is an unwitting computer user possibly a hacker) and the latter is a cracker.The term "cracked" refers to
that condition in which the victim network has suffered an unauthorized intrusion." The different degrees of this condition
are reported on page 86 of the book. A good source of information about "viruses" is at the Department of Energy ( http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACVirusDatabase.html
On page 543 of the book, different levels of sensitivity in the netwok are reported. These levels of attack are defined numerically: from level one [(mail bomb attack, simple denial-of-service attack)
being the least harmful] to level six [(remote users can write to privileged, remote users have root) being the most harmful].
Internet Security Secrets by John Vacca (1996) IDG Books, Foster City, CA, U.S.A.
Fighting the network war by John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt on Wired (December 2001) pages 148 -151. J. A. & D. R.
are the coauthors of the book "Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy" (RAND, 2001) http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1382/ /
Divided we stand by Oliver Morton on Wired (December 2001) pages 152 - 155

2002 Topics: Asymmetric warfare ( 1 ), Biodiversity ( 13 ) , Biological warfare ( 2 , 3 , 4 , 15 ), Biotechnology ( 12 , 14 , 16
), Bioterrorism ( 2 , 3 , 4 , 15 ) , Cryptography ( 17 ), Cybersecurity ( 5 , 6 ), Export ( 8 ), Export knowledge ( 11
) , Forensic DNA ( 10 ), Human genome ( 16 ) , Security ( 9 ), Space War (
7 ) , Water ( 18
)
- Terrorism, Asymmetric Warfare, and Weapons of Mass Destruction
( Defending the U.S. Homeland) by Antony H.
Cordesman (2002) - - Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. - Praeger (Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A. and London, U.K.) - Additional info at the web site: < http://www.state.gov/www/global/terrorism/ >
- Chemical and Biological Warfare
- A comprehensive survey for the concerned citizen) by: Eric Croddy (with Clarisa
Perez-Armendariz and John Hart) (2002) - Copernicus Books (New York, NY, U.S.A.)
Chemical agents |
- Choking gases (lung irritants)
- Blister agents (vesicants)
- Blood agents
- Nerve agents (toxic organophosphates)
- Incapacitans (psychoactive chemicals)
- Harassing or riot-control agents (RCAs) Lacrimators, Sternutators, Vomiting Agents)
- Developmental weapons (perfluoroisobutene and a new generation of nerve gases)
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Herbicides |
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Obscurant smokes |
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Napalm |
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Maladorous concoctions and masking agents |
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Biological agents |
- Living organisms
- bacteria (anthrax, plague, tularemia, glanders, Q-fever, cholera)
- fungi (Valley Fever from Coccidioides immitis)
- viruses [smallpox, hemorrhagic fever viruses, Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE), foot-and-mouth disease]
- Biologically produced toxins (by bacteria, fungi and other living organisms: abrin, aflatoxins, botulinum toxins, conotoxins, ricin,..)
- Bioregulators
- Protozoa
- Arthropods (Potato beetles)
- Other (malaria, weeds, phytopathogens, fish pathogens)
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- Biological Weapons:
Limiting the Threat by Joshua Lederberg (Editor) (1999) - The MIT Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. - London, England)
- Biological warfare
(Modern offense and defence) by Raymond A. Zilinskas (Editor) (2000) - Lynne Rienner Publishers
(Boulder, U.S.A. - London, U.K.) Implications of biotechnology for weapons development and arms control. As reported
by Robert P. Kadlec and Alan P. Zelicoff, (pages 11 - 26) the attributes of the biological warfare agents, that can be modified, are the following:
- virulence
- stability
- drug resistance
- environmental resistance
- efficient vectors
- control of agents
- protection of own forces,
- antigen structure
- diagnostic markers
- production
- storage
- dissemination
The biological weapons can inflict mass casualties and they are cheaper than conventional bombs and delivery systems; they
offer a potential means for poor countries to offset the advantage provided by high-technology conventional weapons. This is the so-called asymmetric strategy
, in which some developing countries seek ton pit their military strengths against the vulnerabilities of advanced industrialized states thar are vastly superior in conventional military power (Jonathan B. Tucker, pages 27 - 52).
- The Truth About Cyberterrorism
by Scott Berinato on CIO 15 (11), 66 - 72 ( Report 1 on "Cybersecurity" ) [The spectrum of cybermalfeasance
: (i) information warfare, (ii) information counterintelligence, (iii) cyberterrorism, (iv) cyber organized crime, (v) information vendettas, (vi) cybercrime, (vii) cyberhooliganism] - Additional information at CIO.COM (
http://www.cio.com )
- How to Plan for the Inevitable
by Sarah D. Scalet on CIO 15 (11), 74 - 82; ( Report 2 on "Cybersecurity" ); Additional information at CIO.COM ( http://www.cio.com )
- Peace is war
by Bruce Sterling on WIRED (April 2002), 76 - 87; Space War III began Sep |