Senate Bill S.3127
Introduced to Senate: June 12, 2008
Sponsor: Senator Richard Burr [NC]
Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions June 12, 2008.
A bill to reauthorize the Select Agent Program by amending the Public Health Service Act and the Agricultural Bioterrorism Protection Act of 2002 and to improve oversight of high containment laboratories.
This Briefing Book is intended to assist participants in the Seventh Review Conference for the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. The Seventh BWC Review Conference will be held from 5 to 22 December 2011 in Geneva. The Briefing Book contains relevant key documents. This volume follows a similar layout to the Sixth BWC Review Conference Briefing Book published in 2006 and the Second Chemical Weapons Convention Review Conference Briefing Book published in 2008.
The British American Security Information Council (BASIC), the Harvard Sussex Program (HSP) and the Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC) prepared a Briefing Book for the BWC Sixth Review Conference 2006. The conference was held between 20 November – 8 December 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland. The book was launched at a panel discussion hosted by the Geneva Forum at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on 9 November. The discussion was chaired by Patricia Lewis of UNIDIR. Ambassador Johannes Landman of the Netherlands and Ambassador Masood Khan, the President-Designate of the Review Conference, addressed the meeting. The book contains official documents and other texts relating to the biological weapons regime.
This report, which will be updated as necessary, presents a means of assessing the relative threat from terrorist-use of individual chemical, biological, and toxin agents. It focuses on small-scale, targeted chemical and biological attacks, rather than mass-casualty attacks. The framework considers the elements of access, public health impact, medical treatment, prophylaxis, and dissemination. Other factors that may affect potential use by terrorists include the range of lethality, covert employment of an agent, and the availability of dual-use technologies…
Supplementary Documents:
Comments on the CRS Report “Small-Scale Terrorist Attacks Using Chemical and Biological Agents”
by George Smith, Ph.D., GlobalSecurity.Org, June 2004
Comments on CRS Report on Small-scale Terrorist Attacks
by Milton Leitenberg, University of Maryland, June 15, 2004
Senate Bill S.719
Introduced to Senate: March 26, 2003
Sponsor: Senator Judd Gregg [NH]
Status: Reported by Committee April 2, 2003
A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the payment of compensation for certain individuals with injuries resulting from the administration of smallpox countermeasures.
