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Ivan Princ (1968) graduated from the Military College of Ground Forces in Vyškov (1986–1990), where he obtained a university qualification in the field of "command-engineer – military chemistry" and subsequently worked for over 20 years in the army. He worked for a total of 19 years in professional positions in the ground troops, especially in the 7th Mechanized Brigade in Hranice na Moravě with tasks for: "Management of individual subsystems within the brigade with competence to perform the tasks of the brigade, ensuring combat and mobilization readiness and training of subordinate chemical units, organization and management of chemical support of the brigade and professional training of brigade members". He worked as an assistant professor in the Military Strategy and Operational Art Department of the Department of Military Art Studies of the Institute of Strategic and Defence Studies of Chemical Expertise at the University of Defence in Brno (2009–2010). From 1990 to 1991, as part of the 1st Special Czechoslovak Anti-Chemical Battalion, he took part in combat missions "Desert Storm" and "Desert Shield" in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, where chemical weapons were detected. In 2002, in a professional position (expert advisor to the commander of the contingent in the field of WMD and protection of troops) of the Headquarters of the 11. Field Hospital took part in the ISAF-2 foreign security mission in Kabul, Afghanistan. Since September 1, 2012, he has been working at Tomas Bati University in Zlín, Faculty of Logistics and Crisis Management in Uherské Hradiště (Institute of Population Protection) as an assistant professor. Here he teaches the issue of population protection in a bachelor's degree program. He supervises and opposes bachelor's theses of students and his scientific and pedagogical experience at universities is 12 years. He has published professional articles and communications. He prepared a number of internal military regulations, aids and publications. As an author, he has worked as a leader or member of a team of authors on several professional military and civilian projects, which were focused on security issues with various aspects. More details about the author can be found on the TBU account in Zlín: https://flkr.utb.cz/contacts/ing-ivan-princ/    

Prof. Ing. Dušan Vičar, CSc. (1953) A long-time researcher-pedagogue with experience in performing academic functions and managing research teams' scientific projects and research plans. He currently holds the position of Director of the Institute of Population Protection at the Faculty of Logistics and Crisis Management of Tomas Bata University in Zlín. Graduate of the Military Academy of Applied Sciences in Brno, field of study chemical engineering (1977), in the years 1983–1988 external scientific education at the Military Academy in Brno in the field of "Operational and Combat Use of Types of Troops, Special Technical and Rear Support", in 1992 habilitation procedure in the field of "Weapons and Protection against Them" at the University of Defence in Vyškov, in 2004 procedure for appointment as a professor in the field of "Protection of Troops and Population" at Military College of Ground Forces in Vyškov. He is a member of a number of scientific, professional and editorial boards, a member of the working group on education "Security Disciplines" and a member of the evaluation committee of the National Accreditation Bureau for the field of "Security". Principal investigator or co-investigator of more than twenty projects, especially of defence research and research plans for the development of the organization, author of more than two hundred publications in professional journals, contributions to domestic and foreign conferences in the field of chemical control of militarily important compounds, decontamination and liquidation of the consequences of environmental accidents and decontamination. In recent years, he has been involved in the issue of population protection and crisis management. Further details about the author can be found on the TBU account in Zlín:  https://flkr.utb.cz/contacts/prof-ing-dusan-vicar-csc/ 

Doc. Ing. Ivan Mašek, CSc. (1949) worked at Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Faculty of Logistics and Crisis Management in Uherské Hradiště, Institute of Population Protection until 2018. From 1992 to 2008 he worked as an academic at the Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Environmental Protection. Graduate of Military Academy of Fine Arts in Brno, field of chemical engineering (1976), in the years 1990–92 Military Academy in Brno, study of English, in the period 1989–92 Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, postgraduate studies in "Modern Instrumental Methods", in the years 1985–92 external scientific training of the Military Academy in Brno, candidate of technical sciences in the field of "Weapons of Mass Destruction and Protection against Them", in 2000 habilitation of the Military Academy in Brno, in the field of "Theory of Defence of the State." Author and co-author of dozens of publications at international conferences and in professional journals in the field of chemistry of highly toxic substances and environmental protection, environmental protection, population protection, toxic landfills, recycling of electronic waste, author and co-author of 5 patents, currently dealing with the issue of security and protection of the population, chemistry of highly toxic substances, weapons of mass destruction and protection against them, individual and collective protection of persons, Crisis management and planning. Founder of the Bachelor's degree programme "Population Protection". More details about the author are on the ResearchGate account:   https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan-Masek 

Doc. Ing. Otakar Jiří Mika, CSc. (1953) worked until 2019 at Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Faculty of Logistics and Crisis Management in Uherské Hradiště, Institute of Population Protection. There he worked as an assistant professor and taught the issue of population protection in the bachelor's degree program. Supervises and opposes students' bachelor's theses. He currently works at the Police Academy in Prague and works on various security projects. He has 33 years of teaching experience at universities. In 1977 he graduated from the Antonín Zápotocký Military Academy in Brno in the field of chemical engineering. He then served for a total of nine years in the 19th Motorized Rifle Division in Pilsen in military-professional positions. After completing his internal postgraduate studies (in 1986-1989) at the Antonín Zápotocký Military Academy in Brno under the guidance of Professor Ing. Jiří Matoušek, DrSc., he was awarded the scientific title of Candidate of Technical Sciences (CSc.) in the field of protection against weapons of mass destruction on 12 December 1990. In 2013, he habilitated at the Police Academy of the Czech Republic in the field of crisis management and criminalistics. The professional specialization includes protection of the population, chemical safety, protection against weapons of mass destruction, CBRN terrorism and protection against it and other related fields. Since 2013, he has been a person professionally qualified in the field of radiation protection. He has published about 500 professional articles and communications, of which 50 titles are university textbooks in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In addition to the Czech Republic, he has published in 12 other countries. As an author, he has worked as a leader or member of a team of authors on several professional projects that have been focused on security issues and with various focuses. More details about the author are on the account of ORCID:  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7219-6570 

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The current international military-political situation in the world, with war conflicts taking place both in Europe and in the Middle East, shows the topicality of the issue of population protection. Based on the above-mentioned events, the authors of the published e-books:

  • Individual and collective protection, and
  • Nuclear, radiological and chemical weapons, radiation and chemical accidents

They decided to make these e-books available to inform the general public and experts about this issue. The above facts emphasize the importance and applicability of e-books as a comprehensive material in the field of "protection against the effects of the use or misuse of nuclear, radiological and chemical weapons, and after radiation and chemical accidents."

E-book: Individual and collective protection ISBN 978-80-7678-147-4, DOI: 10.7441/978-80-7678-147-4 is freely available for download on the website of the Tomas Bata University Library in Zlin:  https://digilib.k.utb.cz/handle/10563/52418 and takes the reader on a short historical excursion of the origin of individual and collective protection, introduces the current established means of respiratory and body (skin) protection, their development, testing, storage and treatment.

In their professional publication, the authors describe four main areas of individual and collective protection. In the first part, in addition to the historical excursion into the field of individual and collective protection, development, production and testing of protective properties of protective equipment, they also deal with the professional description of individual respiratory protection equipment, including breathing apparatus and equipment and means of skin protection used by members of the integrated rescue system units when carrying out rescue and liquidation work and by the population in the context of the protection of the population after emergencies and crisis situations. Situations. In addition to the above-mentioned professional means of individual protection, the monograph also describes the principles of occupational health and safety, including the characteristics of available personal protective equipment, which can also be used in the context of improvised protection of the population against dangerous substances. The second part of the monograph defines the currently topical issue of biological agents and protection against their effects, including medical devices of individual protection when exposed to dangerous substances. The third and fundamental issue described in the monograph is collective protection. Individual civil protection facilities are characterized with an emphasis on civil protection facilities to ensure the shelter of people in shelters, their establishment and facilities for the issuance of personal protection equipment to the population, including a description of the activities of state authorities and professional personnel in the issuance of individual protection equipment to the population in crisis situations. And the last area, which the authors deal with in the e-book, is a selected part of the issue from the field of logistics, from which the basic principles of storage of means of protection against the effects after the use or misuse of weapons of mass destruction and after radiation and chemical accidents are presented. This issue is taught for students of the Bachelor's degree program Population Protection and the follow-up Master's degree program Security of Society.

In the elaboration of this professional publication, the authors used both their own lifelong professional experience in this issue in peace and war (the author is a participant in the "Gulf War" and the ISAF-II military security mission in Afghanistan), as well as a large number of publications, professional periodicals and other open domestic and foreign information sources, especially on the issue of weapons of mass destruction and protection against them. In addition, the authors regularly participate in both domestic and foreign conferences, workshops and symposia focusing on CBRN issues. For the sake of completeness, it may be added that the published material was processed only on the basis of open information sources. At the same time, the most valuable information on the CBRN field of expertise is published in intelligence, security studies, analyses and analyses. For the purpose of greater comprehensibility and clarity, the publication is supplemented by a rich appendix.

The e-book is intended for the lay and professional public and can be used as a source of information in the Preparation of Citizens for National Defense (POCFND, in Czech POKOS), units of the Territorial Defence Forces (Active Reserves), state administration and territorial self-government bodies, components of the integrated rescue system and professional personnel of civil protection facilities in crisis situations. It contains a rich pictorial appendix and is a loose follow-up to the already published e-book: Nuclear, Radiological and Chemical Weapons, Radiation and Chemical Accidents. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7441/978-80-7454-947-2, ISBN 978-80-7454-947-2, which is freely available for download from the website of the TBU Library in Zlín: https://hdl.handle.net/10563/45934.

In addition to an expert description of the history of the development and use of nuclear, radiological weapons, chemical weapons and cases of radiation and chemical accidents, their destructive effects and principles of protection against them, the e-book also contains original case studies concerning the consequences of nuclear accidents and accidents such as in Jaslovské Bohunice (Slovakia, 1971), Tree Mile Island (USA, 1979), Chernobyl (Ukraine, 1986), Fukushima (Japan, 2011) and also concerning known and potential CBRN scenarios terrorism through the use of radioactive materials. In the field of nuclear and radiological weapons, the e-book also contains a historical excursion into past nuclear crises during the period of the so-called "Cold War between the West and East" such as the Korean, Caribbean or Vietnam nuclear crises and the subsequent period of efforts at nuclear disarmament in the world. In their e-book, the authors deal with the issues of secondary effects of depleted uranium ammunition on both the population and soldiers in the places where these ammunitions were used in the war in the states of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. In the field of chemical weapons and chemical accidents, the e-book contains case studies of the misuse of nerve agents of the "Novichok" type from the Russian military chemical project "Foliant", such as the poisoning of Sergei V. Skripal in Salisbury, England, on March 4, 2018, or the use of pesticides by US troops in the Vietnam War in 1962−71, including their impacts on the population and the environment. In the e-book, the authors also evaluate selected industrial chemical compounds both from the point of view of their physico-chemical and toxicological properties as potentially misused substances for terrorist purposes as secondary chemical weapons, as well as from the point of view of the possible occurrence of technological accidents associated with the release of these substances into the environment. According to the authors' analysis, the selected chemical toxicants presented in the text are based on their probable occurrence within the infrastructure of the Czech Republic. 

This e-book has also been translated into English: Nuclear, Radiological and Chemical Weapons, Radiation and Chemical Accidents. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7441/978-80-7678-053-8, ISBN 978-80-7678-053-8 which is freely available for download from the website of the TBU Library in Zlín: https://hdl.handle.net/10563/50136.