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Limited Progress Seen at Biological Weapons Convention Review Meeting

(Global Security Newswire) Delegates to last month’s Biological Weapons Convention review conference achieved consensus on a number of updates to decision-making and trust-building mechanisms for the pact, but agreement was limited in those areas and fully lacking on other matters, official participants and independent experts said. Nations represented at the meeting approved certain reforms to Read More »

January 19, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Biological Weapons, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Syrian Chemical, Biological Arms Worry Israel

(Global Security Newswire) A high-level Israeli armed forces officer on Tuesday said his country was alarmed over the fate of Syria’s chemical and biological warfare stocks after the potential fall of the Assad regime, Agence France-Presse reported. “The question is when, not if” the Assad government is brought down by continued protest efforts, Israeli armed Read More »

January 19, 2012
| Filed under Middle East, Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism, and International
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Livermore Lab bioweapons center debated in court

(San Francisco Chronicle) Research at the center is intended to help the government detect biological pathogens such as anthrax, plague, brucellosis and Q fever. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the facility in 2006, saying the Department of Energy’s environmental assessment had failed to study the possibility that terrorists could cause a release Read More »

January 13, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biological Weapons, Biosafety, Bioterrorism, and Research
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Philippines may host bioweapons conference in 2012

(GMA News) A regional Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) may be held in the Philippines later this year, to support the Philippines' international cooperative efforts for dealing with biological weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. …

January 12, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Biological Weapons, Countermeasures, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Biological indecision

(Malcolm Dando | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) The December 2011 Seventh Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in Geneva was widely expected to significantly strengthen international measures in the prohibition regime against weapons of mass destruction. After all, the review came after a series of constructive annual meetings in the second Intersessional Read More »