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Albert Mauroni (born 1962) is a senior policy analyst who works on military chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) defense programmatic and policy issues. He writes on the US government's capabilities to counter weapons of mass destruction, to include passive defence, consequence management, force protection, and homeland security missions.

After graduating from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1985, Mauroni joined the US Army as a chemical officer and later earned a master's degree in science for administration from Central Michigan University. After seven years of active duty service, he was a consultant for the US Army Soldier and Biological-Chemical Command, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (J5 and J8), the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for the Elimination of Chemical Weapons, and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

Selected bibliography
Publications

"History of the Chemical Threat, Chemical Terrorism, and Its Implications for Military Medicine," chapter 4 of Military Aspects of Chemical Warfare, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008

Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Reference Handbook, second edition, ABC-Clio, Santa Barbara, CA, 2006

''[http://www.usni.org/store/item.asp?ITEM_ID=1109&DEPARTMENT_ID=145 Where Are The WMDs? The Reality of Chem-Bio Threats on the Home Front and the Battlefront,]'' Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 2006

Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Reference Handbook, ABC-Clio, Santa Barbara, CA, 2003

Chemical Demilitarization: Public Policy Aspects, Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT, 2003

America’s Struggle with Chemical-Biological Warfare, Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT, 2000

Chemical-Biological Defense: U.S. Military Policies and Decisions in the Gulf War, Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT, 1998

Published Articles "Chem-Bio Weapon Threat: Do Not Exaggerate Capabilities of Nonstate Actors," Defense News, July 6, 2009

"The New Threat of Unconventional Warfare," Joint Forces Quarterly, 4th Quarter 2008

"There Is No ‘E’ in Combating WMD," Combating WMD Journal, Issue 2, 2008

"Responding to Bioterrorism: Are We On Course?" Praeger Security International, December 2007

"The Chemical Weapons Convention – Ten Years Later," Praeger Security International, March 2007

"The Future of CBRN Defense," Joint Forces Quarterly, 1st Quarter 2007