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…
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
In the wake of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August, 1945, the popular ethos practiced by the U.S. science community confronted an overwhelming impetus for self-evaluation. The sheer magnitude of physical power generated by the atomic bomb, particularly in the context of its use against a segment of humanity, prompted scientists across [...]
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Biotechnology and the Dual-Use Dilemma The word dilemma may be too docile to describe the biological and life sciences. Nuclear physics feature a dual-use dilemma: the fundamental processes required to create nuclear energy are also involved in the production of nuclear weapon fissile material. However, the dual-use dilemma involved in the biological and life sciences makes [...]
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