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Weapons of Mass Destruction – Additional Russian Cooperation Needed to Facilitate U.S. Efforts to Improve Security at Russian Sites
Terrorists and countries of concern may be able to gain access to poorly secured weapons of mass destruction at sites throughout Russia. To address this threat to U.S. national security, the Departments of Defense (DOD) and Energy (DOE) have obligated more than $1.8 billion since 1992. GAO was asked to report on U.S. programs to Read More »
- March 12, 2012
- | Filed under North America, Report, and 2001-2025
Homeland Security – Much Is Being Done to Protect Agriculture from a Terrorist Attack, but Important Challenges Remain
U.S. agriculture generates more than $1 trillion per year in economic activity and provides an abundant food supply for Americans and others. Since the September 11, 2001, attacks, there are new concerns about the vulnerability of U.S. agriculture to the deliberate introduction of animal and plant diseases (agroterrorism). Several agencies, including the U.S. Department of Read More »
- March 12, 2012
- | Filed under North America, Report, and 2001-2025
33rd Workshop of the Pugwash Study Group on the Implementation of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions: Achieving Realistic Decisions at the Seventh BWC Review Conference in 2011
This workshop was hosted by the Association Suisse de Pugwash in association with the Geneva International Peace Research Institute GIPRI. The meeting was supported by a grant provided by the Swiss federal authorities. The workshop took place immediately prior to the Seventh Review Conference on the operation of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in December Read More »
- March 12, 2012
- | Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South Asia, and 2001-2025
Report on technical consultation on H5N1 research issues
Approximately 60% of persons known to have been infected by the avian influenza A(H5N1) virus have died from their illness. To date, most known human infections have occurred through contact with, or exposure to, infected birds. The prospect that H5N1 viruses circulating in nature might evolve and acquire the ability to spread with ease from Read More »
- March 12, 2012
- | Filed under Europe, North America, Report, and 2001-2025
Is H5N1 Really Highly Lethal?
“How lethal are H5N1 influenza viruses to humans? The answer to this question is central to the current debate over research on genetically modified H5N1 viruses. In an effort to determine if highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 was capable of becoming easily transmissible between mammals, researchers in the Netherlands modified H5N1 viruses to make them Read More »
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