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БІОЛОГІЧНИЙ ТЕРОРИЗМ: ПРОНИКНЕННЯ В СУТНІСТЬ
BIOLOGICAL TERRORISM: PREPARING THE ESSENCE

Author(s): Mikhail Petrovich Trebin
Subject(s): Security and defense, Military policy
Published by: Національний юридичний університет імені Ярослава Мудрого
Keywords: biological terrorism; biological weapons; national security; epidemic; pandemic;

Summary/Abstract: Biological terrorism is the reality of today. It is understood as the deliberate use by individuals, terrorist groups or organizations, separate structures of state bodies of biological weapons of destruction of people, animals and plants in order to destroy or disable people, causing great economic, social, political, demographic and environmental losses to the country and the world community , imposing a certain line of behavior on international organizations, states, local governments in solving external and internal issues problem. The negative consequences of bioterrorism are revealed, three classes of biological agents, the main methods of combat use of biological weapons are analyzed.