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Philippines Leads Asia-Pacific Biological Weapons Dialogue in Geneva

(ISRIA) The Philippine Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) that the Philippines had actively participated in the Seventh Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC RevCon) held …

January 10, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, Biological Weapons, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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The nuclear, biological and climate threat – 2011 reviewed

(EurekAlert!) Gerald Epstein, director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Security Policy (CSIS) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, says that 2011 saw progress on approaches to address biological threats posed by non-state groups at both the Seventh Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Review Conference and the G8 Global Partnership Against the Read More »

January 9, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Biological Weapons, Biotechnology, Bioterrorism, Countermeasures, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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An Engineered Doomsday

(New York Times) In the future, it is imperative that any such experiments be rigorously analyzed for potential dangers — preferably through an international review mechanism, but also by governmental funding agencies — before they are undertaken, not after the fact as is happening in this case. The most frightening research was done by scientists Read More »

January 9, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biological Weapons, Biotechnology, International, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Flu Season

(Foreign Policy) 7, addressing the review summit on biological weapons. Concern reached such heights that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a surprise visit to Geneva on Dec. 7, addressing the review summit on biological weapons. No American official of her stature had attended the bioweapons summits in decades, and Clinton’s presence stunned observers.

January 6, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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FEMA Trained 93,500 Emergency Responders on WMD Readiness in 2011

(Global Security Newswire) The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Center for Domestic Preparedness in 2011 helped prepare 93,500 state and jurisdictional emergency personnel in averting and managing the aftermath of a terrorist strike incorporating chemical , biological, radiological, nuclear or explosive substances, the Homeland Security Department said. Separately, the DHS Domestic Nuclear Detection Office and Read More »