CBRN
Czech firefighters recorded elevated levels of radioactivity from an unspecified object inside a building at Charles University in Prague’s Libeň district on Saturday evening, 14 February. According to Radio Prague International, emergency services were alerted by an anonymous caller who reported a suspicious item at the university premises. The
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A mysterious gas leaked from a cylinder at a scrap dealer's shop on Saturday 7 February near Jammu Airport in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir state. According to local media reports, several residents of Rani Bagh suffered from breathlessness following the sudden leakage of gas from an abandoned cylinder
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The government of the United Kingdom has confirmed that the prominent Russian opposition figure, Alexei Navalny, who died in prison in 2024, was likely killed by a deadly toxin found in the skin of Ecuador dart frogs. In a statement released on Saturday 14 February, the UK government wrote that
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The World Institute for Nuclear Security (WINS) and the African Centre for Science and International Security (AFRICSIS) have agreed to strengthen their cooperation through a memorandum of understanding, it was announced on 29 January. "As countries in Africa harness the benefits of nuclear technology for healthcare, agriculture, industry and
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A fire at a pesticide warehouse in Tangerang City, Indonesia, has triggered toxic runoff into the Jalantreng and Cisadane rivers, causing mass fish die-off and disrupting clean water supplies. The fire broke out at a pesticide warehouse owned by PT Biotek Saranatama in Tekno Park, Tangerang, west of Jakarta, at
Explosives
At least one person was killed and three others, including an army official, were injured when their vehicle was struck by an IED in northern Pakistan on Thursday 12 February. A vehicle belonging to the military engineering and construction organisation, the Frontier Works Organization, was hit by an IED in
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The US Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced on Tuesday 10 February that crews at the Hanford Site near Richland, Washington, have started retrieving radioactive waste from Tank A-106, a one-million-gallon underground storage tank built in the 1950s. The Hanford Site is a decommissioned nuclear production complex
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The US state of New Mexico has issued a number of actions to formally rebuke the federal US Department of Energy for "failing to prioritise the cleanup of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s 'legacy waste'". In a statement released on Wednesday 11 February, the New Mexico
Exercises & Events
US soldiers assigned to a Defense CBRN Response Force made up of the 89th Military Police Brigade, the 48th Chemical Brigade and the 44th Medical Brigade, conducted a mass casualty decontamination training exercise in Fayetteville, North Carolina, 10 February 2026. The response force is a specialised 5,200-person US Northern
Industry
The US chemical detection and identification company has added new drug targets to its handheld MX908 mass spectrometry device for trace chemical identification. "These enhancements include an updated mission mode for hazardous vapour sampling and the addition of five priority drug targets," a press release issued by the
Industry
Avon Protection has released its EXOSKIN-S2 high-performance CBRN suit, designed for operators in the military, first responders and special forces segments. The release expands the protective suit options that users have across the spectrum of CBRN threat environments. The EXOSKIN-S1, low-burden system, released in early 2024, is designed for lower
Exercises & Events
At least five separate CBRN exercises coordinated by India's National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have taken place in the past three days in Bulandshahr, Bukaro, Mundali and Kolkata. On 10 February, 9th Battalion Patna of the NDRF announced on X that they had conducted a mock CBRN exercise