Perception of Security Threats in the CBRN Sphere: History and Challenges Cover Image

Vnímání bezpečnostních hrozeb v oblasti CBRN – historie a výzvy
Perception of Security Threats in the CBRN Sphere: History and Challenges

Author(s): Pavel Otřísal
Subject(s): Security and defense, Military policy
Published by: Univerzita obrany - Centrum bezpečnostních a vojenskostrategických studií
Keywords: Personnel Protection; Weapons of Mass Destruction; CBRN; Toxic Industrial Materials; Individual Protective Equipment; Threat; Risk

Summary/Abstract: The period of the beginning of the 21st century is typical for the situation characterized by minimization of a global conflict and by decreasing risks of a direct aggression among neighbouring countries. Nonetheless, the occurrence and permanent existence of mass destruction weapons and industrial accidents caused by human beings, natural disasters produced by leakages of toxic industrial materials, are considered as a global problem that determinates not only the activities of national armies, but also activities of civil population. The danger of WMD deployment is especially high at time of danger, when forces are to be used or misused, and terrorist activities might multiply in some world‘s regions, even in technologically underdeveloped countries.

  • Issue Year: 22/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 46-64
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Czech