Medical Treatment Of Intoxications And Decontamination Of Chemical Agents In The Area Of Terrorist Attack

Medical Treatment of Intoxications and Decontamination of Chemical Agents in the Area of Terrorist Attack edited by Christophor Dishovsky Military Medical Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria Alexander Pivovarov Ukrainian State University of Chemical Engineering, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine and Hendrik Benschop TNO Prins Maurits Laboratory, Rijswijk, The Netherlands Published in cooperation with NATO Public Diplomacy Division Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Medical Treatment of Intoxications and Decontamination of Chemical Agent in the Area of Terrorist Attack Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine 25-28 January 2005 A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13 1-4020-4169-1 (PB) 978-1-4020-4169-3 (PB) 1-4020-4168-3 (HB) 978-1-4020-4168-6 (HB) 1-4020-4170-5 (e-book) 978-1-4020-4170-9 (e-book) Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved © 2006 Springer No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed in the Netherlands CONTENTS Preface ............................................................................................................. ix Acknowledgements.......................................................................................... xi Key Speakers ................................................................................................. xiii Other Participants and Observers ................................................................. xvii Part 1 CURRENT PROBLEMS OF CHEMICAL TERRORISM........................ 1 Chapter 1 Problems of Chemical Terrorism and Ways of Its Overcoming Dishovsky C ...................................................................................................... 3 Chapter 2 Toxic Chemicals and Radioactive Substances as Reason of Occurrence of Acute Poisoning in Ukraine Ryzhenko S ...................................................................................................... 13 Chapter 3 Biomonitoring of Exposure to Chemical Warfare Agents Noort D., Van Der Schans M.J., and Benschop H.P ...................................... 21 Chapter 4 Non-ruled Market Economy as a Source of Chemical Terrorism. Automotive Fuel: Quality and Environmental Safety Zadorsky W. .................................................................................................... 27 Chapter 5 Role of the Chemical Weapons Convention in Combating Chemical Terrorism Matousek J. ..................................................................................................... 49 v vi Contents Chapter 6 Chemical Incident Simulator: A New Approach for Deriving Passive Defence Requirements Linders M.J.G., van Beest C.A., Brasser P., Geers L.F.G., van ‘t Hof G., Rumley-van Gurp R.A., Sterkenburg R.P., van Swieten S.C., Zappey H.W., and Hin A.R.T. ............................................ 59 Chapter 7 OPCW Concept of Assistance Under Article X Brown C.L....................................................................................................... 71 Chapter 8 Environmentally Hazardous Projects in Ukraine as Attractive Targets for Terrorist Acts Shmatkov G..................................................................................................... 81 Chapter 9 Dioxins: Threat of Misuse in Possible A