Ministero della Difesa

On 1 March 1999, in the wake of decisions implemented  by other nations, Italy passed from a single-service to a joint approach to the CBN issue,  aiming to establish a centre where all CBN defence -related activities would be grouped together. 

As technical and scientific progress made the effects of chemical and biological weapons increasingly devastating while heavily lowering production costs, such weapons came to be known as "the atomic bomb of the poor".

The Joint School of CBRN Defence  functions as a Joint Centre for Chemical, Biological and Nuclear Defence and was assigned new institutional tasks, including - subject to authorization  of the Army Weapon Inspectorate - writing and disseminating  doctrinal publications on the  matter at hand. Such publications reflect NATO directives and  the subsequent Single Services’ guidelines.