Annual report 2006 on FOI's NBC Defence Research

Authors:

  • Torbjörn Nylén
  • Anders Lindblad

Publish date: 2007-02-19

Report number: FOI-R--2229--SE

Pages: 44

Written in: Swedish

Keywords:

  • Nuclear weapons
  • chemical warfare agents
  • biological warfare agents

Abstract

This report summarises the results from the fiscal year 2006 within FOI research area of NBC-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 NBC-defence. During 2006 FOI has for example - Supported the Government and defence authorities by making threat analysis and independent assessments of ther threat from weapons of mass destruction - Carried out research in order to find new concepts for medical protection against biological and chemical warfare agents - Improved the capability to identify and verify NBC agents in various samples