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By Region: North America

Op-Ed – Improving Intelligence on Emerging Bioweapons Threats: New Engagements Needed Between Intelligence and Academia

Kathleen M. Vogel, Associate Professor, Department of Science and Technology Studies and the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, Cornell University Since the end of the Cold War and the rise of asymmetric security threats, the U.S intelligence and policy communities have been increasingly concerned about new types of bioweapons attacks that might  Read More »

Op-Ed – With the Changing Biological threat…smart international engagement policy would lower cost and increase national security.

David R. Franz, DVM, Ph.D. Former Commander US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases “There is no technical solution…”: In 1998, after we understood the enormity of the Soviet offensive program and the potential of the Iraqi one to disrupt, Nobel Laureate Joshua Lederberg said, “There is no technical solution to this problem of  Read More »

Op-Ed – The Biological Weapons Program of the Soviet Union

Milton Leitenberg Senior Research Scholar Center for International Security Studies, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland  In a highly unusual and unanticipated development, the United States government announced the end of its offensive biological weapons (BW) program on November 25, 1969. US BW stockpiles were destroyed in 1971-1972, and facilities converted. Great Britain, by  Read More »

Op-Ed – Building Capacity for Global Health and Biosecurity – Moving from Siloes to Systems

Julie E. Fischer Senior Associate Stimson Global Health Security Program Human actions continually transform the landscapes in which pathogens can spread within and between vulnerable populations. For example, rising average household incomes throughout emerging economies have propelled rising consumption of animal proteins.  Suppliers respond to this new demand by crowding livestock and poultry into farms  Read More »

Op-Ed – How not to “run afowl” of deemed export regulations

Kimberly Orr, DVM, PhD Microbiologist and Senior Biologist Chemical Biological Controls at Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce Most life science research which is published and considered fundamental research is not subject to export license requirements in the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), administered by the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of  Read More »

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