In his new book, Living Weapons: Biological Warfare and International Security, Dr. Gregory Koblentz, a member of the Center’s Scientists Working Group on Biological and Chemical Weapons, observes that “biological weapons are the least well understood of the WMD” and that “use of terms such as WMD and ‘chem-bio’ has hindered our understanding of the [...]
Friday, December 11, 2009
Below the jump are a few responses issued by bioweapons policy experts in response to the Obama administration’s announcement on Wednesday and release of its biothreat strategy. Longer strides are being called for…
Thursday, December 10, 2009
(published on Nukes of Hazard) The Obama administration in Geneva yesterday formally revealed its new strategy for strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). Anticipating the release of the White House’s “National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats,” Dr. Jonathan Tucker, a senior fellow with the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, told Global Security Newswire last Friday: “What’s [...]
Monday, October 19, 2009
Regulation and monitoring of transnational commerce is a tough business, particularly as the global market becomes ever more interconnected. The nonproliferation regime depends on strict regulations, while economic growth (and competitiveness) requires relative lenience. Two recent studies are described below as examples of the attention currently being given to transnational commerce. Each presents a unique [...]
Friday, October 2, 2009
In the commotion of European missile defense, UN nuclear speeches, Security Council nuclear resolutions, and Iranian and Korean developments, it becomes very easy to miss the developments in another world, one that may very well be just as critical and threatening as strategic nuclear concerns: that of the biological. Encouraging things are astir in the [...]
Sunday, September 13, 2009
We Live in a Nuclear World In our world of nuclear headlines, biological threat issues continue to get very little relative attention from the media, public, and government. Nuclear weapons certainly pose a very, and viscerally, immediate threat. Their very physical existence poses tremendous risks regardless of who controls them. On top of that, there may [...]
Friday, September 4, 2009
Independent Citizens Helping Health Agencies by Blogging? On Wednesday, Michael E. Ruane of The Washington Post published an article entitled “Flu Trackers Encourage Patients to Blog About It,” describing public health agencies’ growing use of the internet social interactions to track flu outbreaks. This has been made particularly relevant today as a result of H1N1 fears, [...]
Monday, August 24, 2009
To the Representatives of Undergraduate Life Sciences Programs across the World, Within the life sciences curriculum of colleges around the world exists an exigent academic gap.
Friday, August 21, 2009
International Competition Another troublesome element of the biological dual-use dilemma, which I did not develop in my earlier post here, is the possibility of dangerous international competition. National research agendas, aimed at maintaining technological parity or advantages, could push the pace of advancements in the biological sciences at an incredible speed, perhaps thrusting research programs into [...]
Sunday, August 16, 2009
In a recent article entitled “How to cure diseases before they have even evolved,” New Scientist reports on the promising results of several research teams to develop a new class of antiviral drugs that would each target a whole range of viruses, including strains of viruses that have not even emerged yet. The new approach: [...]
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