Sentences with phrase «biological warfare»

Other countries have also investigated the use of wheat diseases in biological warfare.

A new method that can detect even trace amounts of chemicals in the air could be the key to stopping chemical and biological warfare attacks.

It seems as though there is some complicated biological warfare going on in the ponds!

A killer plague or other form of biological warfare is more promising, as long as it kills every living thing on the planet in short order.

This is an experiment in biological warfare, or hadn't you noticed?

Brucella melitensis is considered a potential agent for biological warfare by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention and rated «B» on the list of potential bioterrorist weapons.

Some scientists think that was microbes waging biological warfare against you — and winning.

The agency is confronting pressure from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to streamline and speed up the drug application process, budgetary concerns stemming from relatively stagnant public funding over the last several years, and disputes over subjects ranging from biological warfare to the regulation of genetically modified foods.

You offered advice during the Falklands War to the effect that the Brits should use biological warfare against the Argies.

I think those Tesla's are like biologically, like they put biological warfare down or something they will still be safe.

Evan Brand: I think those Tesla's are like biologically, like they put biological warfare down or something they will still be safe.

In his tale, the other nations of the world unite and engage in wholesale biological warfare, dropping vials filled with scarlet fever, bubonic plague and cholera on Chinese cities.

we are going to be invaded by a foreign military, and there is going to be biological warfare upon our cattle and bird industries in the midwest.

«The dangers include biological warfare, which can be launched against our agriculture industry.

Follow Roger Highfield as he time - travels, wages biological warfare and finds the secret of galaxy clusters in his soup — all in a typical Monday

When envelopes containing the bacterial spores that cause anthrax started arriving in media offices and on Capitol Hill in the fall of 2001, a new era in biological warfare began.

Ministers were then insisting that it was involved in «work of fundamental importance — beyond anything to do with biological warfare».

Biological warfare experts both here and in the former Soviet Union tried to turn plague into a weapon.

A growing number of companies and universities are claiming to have devised such marvels, ready to perform vital analyses from detecting biological warfare agents in a soldier's bloodstream to identifying toxins in a tainted package of hamburger meat.

«A single - dose aerosol vaccine would enable both prevention and containment of Ebola infections, in a natural outbreak setting where healthcare infrastructure is lacking or during bioterrorism and biological warfare scenarios.»

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA — part of the Defense Department — funded the project under its program to sequence biological warfare agents.

Starring Peter Sarsgaard as CIA biological warfare scientist Frank Olson, Wormwood is a six - episode TV show that dives into the mystery behind Olson's sudden death (and apparent suicide) in 1953.

Early in the film, the general in charge of the army base in which the movie takes place (the great R. Lee Ermey) is shot from below to emphasize his intimidating presence, especially over the civilian EPA guy who's in his office getting an earful about biological warfare.

The nature of the attack and its perpetrators are not known, though Howard speculates on possibilities ranging from nukes to biological warfare via the Russians, North Koreans, and / or Martians.

The atmospheric spraying programs must be considered biological warfare.

Here is the noted physicist Freeman Dyson writing on a related issue in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: subscription required: (The article is mostly about the dangers of nuclear and biological warfare technology, but the BAS issue «Approaching Midnight» also addresses climate.

There's no overarching organization, though, that directs the creation or improvement of this or that portal, so topics range from the somewhat abstruse (e.g. Biological warfare) to the vast (e.g. Africa).

Setting loose hoards of males carrying the bacteria, then, is like waging biological warfare on mosquitoes.

See related GNN article» Sequencing Brucella melitensis, an obscure candidate for biological warfare

The highly toxic materials being used in the ongoing atmospheric aerosol spraying programs all settle down through the air column, this makes geoengineering a form of biological warfare as well.

It is an approach unsuited to the modern reality wherein nonstate actors are more likely than states to use biological warfare agents and the growth of biotechnology is only making those weapons easier to come by.

Oversaw overseas deployments for biological agent field studies and the training of officers, enlisted soldiers, DOD civilians and FBI agents in biological warfare agent detection.

The study, published this week in mBio ®, an open - access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, highlights the advances in genomic sequencing that now enable precise tracking of bacterial strains used in biological warfare and terrorist attacks around the world.

Not only did Washington survive all of these conditions, he knew how to inoculate his army against smallpox, claiming the British tried using as an early form of biological warfare.

Homeland Security documents on drills for a biological warfare attack at the Super Bowl were found by a CNN staffer.

But in this Gilead, Atwood has imagined a time when our nightmares about the perils of toxic waste, radioactive fallout, chemical and biological warfare, nuclear sabotage and the building

But it also has resulted in guns, nuclear bombs, and biological warfare.

It called for everything from increasing manpower to expanding the nuclear ar.senal to advanced forms of biological warfare that can target specific genotypes.