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Definition of Biological attack

1. Noun. The use of bacteria or viruses or toxins to destroy men and animals or food.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Biological Attack

Literary usage of Biological attack

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Realism: Coöperative Studies in Philosophy by Edwin Bissell Holt (1912)
"THE biological attack ON REALISM THE strongest influences against realism to-day emanate from the biological sciences. Only a few years ago, it was physics ..."

2. Biological Weapons: The Threat Posed by Terrorists (2000)
"A chemical or biological attack would pose an altogether different challenge to our ability to respond than that posted by a conventional terrorist ..."

3. U. S. Dual-Use Exports to Iraq and Their Impact on the Health of the Persian by DIANE Publishing Company (1997)
"Before an A Hack: The inability of the individual to detect a biological attack is perhaps the greatest problem. Contributing factors are the delay ..."

4. Sensor Systems for Biological Agent Attacks: Protecting Buildings And by Bmed, National Research Council (U.S.), ebrary, Inc (2005)
"Identification detectors will also be used to verify the initial alarms from nonspecific detectors and to expand the response if a biological attack is ..."

5. Technology Against Terrorism: Structuring Security (1994)
"The epidemiológica! characteristics of a biological attack are listed below. These would be compared by the algorithms with the data from a suspicious ..."

6. Review of Epa Homeland Security Efforts: Safe Buildings Program Research by Bcst, National Research Council (U.S.), ebrary, Inc, Environmental Protection Agency, United States, Committee on Safe Buildings Program (2003)
"The EPA initiated its Safe Buildings Program as a comprehensive response to a chemical or biological attack on a civilian or public sector facility. ..."

7. The Price of Dominance: The New Weapons of Mass Destruction and Their by Jan Lodal (2001)
"7 America's vulnerability is not its military strength, but its open society and porous borders, making it vulnerable to a chemical or biological attack ..."

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