News
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| Date | Title | |
| 12 Jul. 2023 |  | On the 12 July 2023, the NATO International Military Staff Office of the Gender Advisor hosted its twelfth Deep Dive Session focused on Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Defence and the Gender Perspective. The session discussed how CBRN threats affect men, women, boys and girls differently while highlighting how NATO is considering the gender perspective in force protection and protection of civilians to increase military readiness and support national resilience against CBRN threats. |
| 29 Jul. 2022 |  |
NATO marks 70 years of scientific and technological research In 2022, NATO marks 70 years of collaborative scientific and technological research at the service of Alliance defence and security. |
| 21 Oct. 2021 |  |
Eleven Allies launch multinational projects to boost CBRN defence The Ministers of Defence from 11 NATO Allies launched three multinational High Visibility Projects to provide CBRN protection equipment, develop and procure CBRN detection and identification systems, as well as potentially establish a network of CBRN defence facilities. The letters of intent launching these initiatives were signed in the margins of the NATO Defence Ministers’ meeting on 21 October 2021. |
| 21 Sep. 2021 |  |
Allies and partners train to save lives during natural disasters From 20 to 23 September 2021, 27 Allies and partners and 16 regional and international organisations came together in and around the cities of Ohrid and Struga in North Macedonia, practising their ability to work together and save lives during high-intensity natural disasters. |
| 25 May. 2020 |  | Romanian military medical personnel and specialists in the field of CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear) left today (25 May 2020) for Alabama, in the United States, to join forces with their American colleagues, as part of NATO Allies’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 20 May. 2020 |  |
Meet Lt Col Piotr Wachna, a Polish chemical weapons expert, at the center of the COVID-19 fight Lt Col Piotr Wachna is a deputy commander at the 4th Chemical Regiment of the Polish army based in Brodnica in north-central Poland. This regiment is considered to be the elite in the area of protection against chemical weapons. |
| 12 Dec. 2017 |  | A group of 15 experts from Kuwait took part in a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) training at the NATO-Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) Regional Centre in Kuwait City from 3 to 7 December 2017. The event was the first of five tailor-made advanced training courses to be delivered at the Centre in the framework of the NATO Science for Peace and Security (SPS) Programme. Other areas of training include energy security and cyber defence. |
| 03 Jun. 2016 |  |
Students from NATO partner countries attend civil emergency planning training Under the aegis of NATO’s Civil Emergency Planning activities, a training course for first responders to chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) incidents was held at the Republican Study-Methodological Centre of Civil Protection, Committee for Emergency Situations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in Almaty, Kazakhstan from 30 May to 3 June 2016. The course took place for the third year in a row and welcomed 15 students from seven NATO partner countries. |
| 04 Sep. 2015 |  | Recent terrorist attacks across Europe have shown that terrorism remains a real threat to Alliance populations. So does the risk that terrorist groups consider the use of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear materials as weapons. This year, NATO’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Non-Proliferation Centre (WMDC) is celebrating its 15th anniversary and stepping up its activities to respond to these threats. |
| 08 May. 2015 |  | The risk of possible use of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) agents by terrorists, or incidents resulting from natural or man-made disasters, continues to pose serious threats to civilian populations internationally. Being able to effectively manage this risk is of particular importance to first responders in the Balkans and the Caucasus. |