Index ABM Treaty of 1972, 183, 190 Anti-missile shield (“Star Wars”), 8, 190 Absorbent powder, 35, 211–212 Antivirals, 129, 131, 143, 214, 215, 228–229 Acute pulmonary edema, 30 Apoptosis, 4, 193 Additional protocol to the Non-Proliferation Arak (production unit for heavy water), 185 Treaty (NPT), 177, 186 Arbovirus, 112 Affymetrix (company), 169 Army Health Service, 84, 120, 205 Afghanistan, 2, 4 Arsenic, 12, 14, 23, 83 Afl atoxin, 62 Asilomar, 170 Agents, 3–6, 11–21, 29–37, 59–63, 68, 73–75, Aspergillus, 62 107–114, 153, 159–173, 201, 205–215, Assault medications, 4, 12 218, 220 Atropine, 35, 38–39, 54–56, 214 asphyxiants (suffocants), 92 Attack drone, 182 BZ, 12, 25, 31, 92 Atypical pneumonia (SARS), 3, 108, 120, incapacitants, 30, 32 135–152 neurotoxicants, 24, 33, 38, 77, 89 Aum Shinrikyo (sect), 20, 187 orange (2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic Australian group, 102 acid), 12, 15 purple, 15 Bacillus red anthracis (anthrax agent), 61, 96, 101, tranquilizers, 32 113, 115, 153–154, 156–157, vesicants, 12–13, 23, 25, 34, 36, 205 166–167, 169 Aging of phosphorylated globigii, 99, 216 acetylcholinesterases, 36–37, 39 subtilis, 216 Alamogordo (USA), 178 Bartonella quintana, 101 Al-Hakam (Iraqi site of), 100 Basson Wouter Alibek Ken (Alibejov Kanatjan), 97, 107, Batelle (foundation), 167–168 117, 118, 157, 166, 188 Bedson Henry, 118, 171 Al-Tuwaitha, 182 Berg Paul, 170, 174 Amantadine, 129, 228 Bhopal, 9, 34, 55, 74, 83, 204 Ames (strain of BacillusCOPYRIGHTED anthracis), 98, 154, Biopreparat MATERIAL (biological war complex), 97–98, 156, 164, 169–170, 172 107, 157, 166 Anthrax, 52, 68, 97, 100–102, 105, 108, 112, Biopreparedness Act, 173 114, 136, 153–157, 164, 167–170, 172, Biochips, 114, 206 204, 218 Bioreactors, 161–162 Antibiotics, 35, 43, 97, 153, 155–156, 161, Biotechnologies, 104, 159–174, 206 164–167, 170, 198, 214–215 Bioterrorism, 24, 49, 100, 117, 125, 208, 219 Antidotes, 39, 48, 56–57, 74, 77, 81, 85, 203, Biotox (plan), 122–123, 153, 204 214–215, 218, 227 Bin Laden, 187–188 Treating Victims of Mass Destruction Edited by Patrick Barriot and Chantal Bismuth © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 232 INDEX Blix Hans, 16–17 Clostridium BLU-82, 2–3 botulinum, 19, 60, 167 Bomb, 3, 97, 154, 178, 181, 188, 191–192, perfringens, 101, 111 195, 221 Cluster bomb, 2 A, 8, 179, 191–192 CN (omega-chloroacetophenone), 24, BL 61–11 or mini-nuke, 3, 181 29–30 Bouchehr (nuclear center), 186, 189 Coccidomycetes (pulmonary mycosis agent), Daisy Cutter, 2 109 dirty or radiological, 2, 181–182, Combat (newspaper), 191 188, 217 Computer simulations, 104–105, 205, E (electromagnetic), 7, 182–183, 196 216–217 FAE (fuel air explosive), 2–3 Contact subjects, 122 fragmentation, 2 Contamination, 5, 11, 14, 19–20, 24, 35, 45, graphite, 7, 196 59, 61, 65–66, 80–81, 97, 108, 113, 118, hydrogen, 179 123, 125, 129–130, 139–141, 163, 188, intelligent virus, 168 194, 198–202, 204, 207, 208, 217 megaton thermonuclear, 1 Counter-proliferation, 7–8, 95, 189–190 neutron, 180, 182–183, 195 Counter-terrorism, 4, 19, 21, 28, 91–93 portable nuclear (“suitcase bomb”), 188 Convention for the Prohibition of Biological Brazil, 96, 111, 188, 196 Weapons, 5, 173 British Anti-Lewisite (BAL or dimercaprol), Convention for the Prohibition of Chemical 36, 199, 201, 214, 216 Weapons, 43, 218 Brucella melitensis, 109, 115 Corona virus, 108, 138 Burkholderia Coxiella brunetii (Q fever agent), 101, 109, mallei, 96, 109–110, 115 115 pseudo-mallei (glanders agent), 101, CS (chlorobenzylidene malononitrile), 12, 110, 115 29–30 BZ (quinuclidinol benzilate), 12, 25, Cyanides, 28, 36, 77, 92 31, 92 Dark Winter (exercise), 103–104, 216 Camus Albert, 191 Decontamination, 30, 35–36, 39, 43, 48–50, Carcinogenic, 62, 170, 194 56–57, 60, 75–81, 85–87, 114, 156, 170, CDC, Atlanta, USA, 121, 138, 152, 155, 188, 194, 196, 199–200, 204, 211–213, 173, 206–207, 228 217–218, 227, 230 Chernobyl, 9, 151, 187, 196–197, 201, 207, Defense secret, 205 213, 216 Defoliants, 7, 11, 15, 21, 27, 29, 181 Chlamydia, 101, 109, 136–138, 143, 164 Dengue, 4, 101, 110, 112, 163, 172 Chlorine, 12–14, 21, 23–24, 32–34, 45, 51, Detection, 40, 105, 109, 119, 128, 137–140, 83, 212 155–156, 165–166, 168–170, 184, 194, Cholera, 62, 101, 103, 112–113, 115, 145, 205–207, 211 162, 164, 166 Detrick (camp, fort), 98, 154, 157, 172 Churchill Winston, 52 Diabrotica virgifera, 104 Ciclofovir, 115, 123 Directed mutagens, 166 Civil defense, 81, 153, 203–205, 219 DM (Adamsite), 30–31 Civilian populations, 1–2, 6–7, 23, 27, DNA chip (biochip), 169, 206 84, 88, 124, 195, 218 Doxycycline, 113–115, 136, 155–156, Ciprofl oxacin, 113–115, 155–156, 214–215, 214–215 230 Dresden (“Dresden effect”), 6, 74, 224 INDEX 233 DTPA (diethylene-triamine-pentacetic acid), Fraser Claire, 160 199, 201, 214, 216 Fusarium, 62, 104 Dugway Proving Ground (Utah, USA), 154 Dumbell (Professor), 118, 171 Gallo Robert, 171 Dupuy Jean-Pierre, 221 Gas, 2–4, 14–15, 20, 24–25, 30–37, 45, 51–52, 69, 80, 91–92, 203–205, Ecocide, 29 208–210 Effects lachrimators, 30 carcinogenic, 194 mustard, 14, 24, 27, 34, 51–52, 57, 69, genetic, 99, 108, 118–119, 126, 130–133, 74, 92 159–174, 194, 220 suffocant, 23, 27 radiomimetic, 35, 62 vesicant, 12, 23, 34, 211 teratogenic, 194 Gas masks, 32–34, 36–37, 39, 52, Einstein Albert, 178 208–210 Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), 97, 154 Gastrointestinal incapacitants, 32 Electromagnetic impulosion, 179 Genetic amplifi cation, 114, 119, 138 Encephalitis, 111–113, 118, 120–121, 128 Genetic engineering, 3, 8, 63, 97, 99, Endogenous porcine retrovirus (PERV), 163 101–102, 113, 118, 133, 144, 157, Enola Gay, 191 159, 165–167, 170–174, 220 Epidemics, 6, 84, 103, 117–118, 128–129, Genetic markers, 156 141, 145, 208, 215, 218 Genetic recombination, 97, 108, 126, Escherich Karl, 14 138, 161 Escherichia coli, 61, 101, 112, 161–162, 164 Genetic sequencing, 99 Euratox (European exercise), 204, 217 Genetic therapy, 168, 170 Glanders, 109 Falluja (site of), 5 GMO (genetically modifi ed organisms), 104 Fentanyl, 91 Goïana (Brazil), 188 Fermi Enrico, 178 Gruinard (island of), 97, 154, 157, Fevers, 97, 110–114 213, 218 aphthous, 103, 208 ebola virus, 4, 101, 103, 108, 110, 114, Haber Fritz Jacob, 14 118, 170 Hahn Otto, 178 equine, 101, 112, 118 Halabja (Iraqi Kurdistan), 15, 28 exanthemous, 110–113 Hablan Hans Heinrich von, 8, 178 hemorrhagic, 4, 60, 62, 97, 101, 103, 108, Halothane, 91 110, 112–115, 136, 172 Hase Albrecht, 14 Lassa, 101, 110, 115, 170 Heavy metals, 12, 162, 181, 195, 199, 201 Marburg virus, 101, 110, 170, 172 chelators, 201 Q, 101, 108–109, 111 Herbicides, 11–12, 15 typhoid and paratyphoid, 100, 103, Hiroshima, 3, 6, 105, 179, 181, 191, 192, 111–113 194–195, 202, 224 yellow, 101, 110, 112–113, 145, 163 Hitler Adolph, 97 Filtering cartridges, 209–211, 214 Hussein Kamel (Lieutenant General), 100 First World War (WWI), 12, 14, 21, 23, Hussein Sadam, 15–18, 61–62, 100 33–34, 51–52, 69, 74, 96, 127, 208 Hybrid, 118, 170–172 Fluoroquinolone, 114 Hydrocyanic acid, 12–14, 27, 45 Francisella tularensis (tularemia agent), 101, Hydroxocobalamin (Cyanokit), 47–49, 214 109, 111, 115 Hypermutability, 166 234 INDEX Identifi cation, 55, 61, 70, 75, 114, 118, LSD (lysergamide), 31 139, 143, 156, 165, 168, 169, 171, Lopinavir, 143 205, 206, 209 Los Alamos Scientifi c Laboratory, 178, 181, I.G. Farben (company), 14 187, 218 Infl uenza, 3, 62, 99, 103, 108, 125, 129, 132, 136, 142, 147, 215, 227 Mac Veigh (Timothy), 2 Insecticides, 14, 27, 36, 52, 68, 69, Manchuria, 96 102, 163 Manhattan Project, 178 Institute for Radioprotection and Nuclear Manuguerra Jean-Claude, 141 Safety, 124, 187, 188, 214 Markov Georgi, 20, 27, 60 Interferon, 144, 161 Mass sociogenic pathology, 220 Interleukin-4, 99, 171, 172 Massachusetts Institute of Technology International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (MIT), 169, 206 177, 185 Matsumoto, 20, 54, 55, 56 International agreements, 1, 5, 11, 16, 20, Mérieux (Institute), 169, 170, 206 29, 51, 68, 93, 133, 145, 170, 189, Methyl isocyanate, 34, 55, 74, 83 206, 223 Missiles, 13, 28, 40, 45, 62, 98, 100, Iran, 13, 23, 27, 60, 69, 95, 98, 100, 118, 102, 179, 181, 183, 184, 186, 208 123, 183, 186, 189 Molecular hybridization, 168, 206 Iraq, 2, 6, 8, 13, 15, 17, 19, 23, 28, 60, 69 Mollaret Henri, 123, 205 Irradiation, 156, 192, 193, 194, 197–201, 213 Monoclonal antibodies, 162, 169, 206 Ishii Shiro (General), 96 Monsanto (company), 15, 104, 162 Ivanovsky (Institute), 118 Mortuaries Moscow theater (Doubrovka), 28, 91 Jackson Ronald, 171 Munition(s), 2, 7, 13, 24, 28, 40, 44, Joliot Frédéric, 45, 83 102, 181, 195,218 Joy Bill, 174, 220 binary, 4, 5, 42, 43 Mycobacterium, 101,164 Kaczynski Theodore, 220 leprae, 164 Kaffa (siege of), 96 tuberculosis, 164 Kamikazi, 2, 8 Mycoplasma genitalium, 160 Kosovo, 2, 182 Mycotoxin, 59, 62, 114 Kowarski Lew, 8, 178 Nagasaki, 179, 191, 194 Laboratory, 5, 47, 55, 117, 118, 122, Naloxone, 28, 91 144, 163, 171, 178, 200, 218, 230 Nanotechnologies, 220, 221 Lacrimator grenade, 29 Nantanz (facility for uranium enrichment), Langemarck (Ypres), 14 184, 185, 189 Launchers, 2, 184 Narcotics, 32 Laurence Livermore National Laboratory, National Institute for Health Surveillance, 206 173, 218 Legionella, 109 Neuroleptics, 27 Lellouche Pierre, 98, 107, 204 Neutrons, 178, 180, 192, 193, 194, 198 Le Monde (newspaper), 19, 123, 136, Nixon Richard, 98 146, 149, 191, 229 NMD (National Missile Defense) Lethal Dose 50% (LD50), 193 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), 177 Lewisite, 15, 36, 51, 201 North Korea, 13, 95, 98, 118, 183, 185 Listeria monocytogenes, 101 Novossibirsk (site of), 97 INDEX 235 Oklahoma City (USA), 2 Proteins Opiates, 35 illusory,