Annual Report on FOI's Research on CBRN

Authors:

  • Susanne Börjegren
  • Torbjörn Nylén

Publish date: 2008-02-27

Report number: FOI-R--2456--SE

Pages: 50

Written in: Swedish

Keywords:

  • nuclear weapons
  • chemical warfare agents
  • biological warfare agents
  • radioactive agents

Abstract

This report summarises the results from the fiscal year 2007 within the FOI research area of CBRN-defence. The report gives a survey of the ongoing activities, the extent and directing of the area and the national and international development in the field of CBRN-defence. During 2007 FOI has for example  Supported the Government and defence authorities by making threat analysis and independent assessments of their threat from CBRN,  carried out research in order to further understand the properties of various CBRNagents and related compounds and  improved the capability to identify and verify NBC agents in various samples.