Strange animal that the bat is! The only flying mammal (the flying squirrel can only glide from one tree to…
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At a time when we are rightly concerned about the evolution of bacteria towards greater resistance to antibiotics, we are…
An excellent article entitled “Plague Masks: The Visual Emergence of Anti-Epidemic Personal Protection Equipment” written by Christos Lynteris has just…
Current images show that tear gases are massively used to maintain order during demonstrations. This leads us to ask ourselves…
As already mentioned, the former acronym BCN (Bacteriological, Chemical, Nuclear) has evolved towards the acronym BCRNe (Biological, Chemical, Nuclear, explosive)…
During the Cold War the Western nations and the USSR developed weapons of mass destruction. Although many of these programs…
We have had the opportunity on several occasions in this blog to talk about biological warfare. An interesting review has…
What is this about? In the field of CBRN, it is common to distinguish “Weapons of Mass Destruction” (WMD)…
We have just learned that 7 ex-members of the Aum sect who participated in the sarin gas attack in Tokyo…
Water played an important role in ancient conflicts: it was used as a poisoning vector but also to flood the…