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Plugging Holes Over Bioweapons

This December, the picturesque city of Geneva will host the Seventh Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). The BWC, which 163 countries are state parties to, prohibits the use, development, production and stockpiling of biological and toxin weapons. In advance of the Review Conference, international delegates to the Convention met from April 13 Read More »

April 22, 2011
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Biological Weapons, and International
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African Pathogens Must Be Secured, Lugar Says

A senior U.S. senator highlighted the need to protect deadly pathogen samples housed in African laboratories from hostile actors who might seek to deploy them in a biological attack, Chemical & Engineering News reported on Monday (see GSN, Nov., 23, 2010). During the Cold War, the former Soviet Union conducted research into the biowarfare uses Read More »

April 14, 2011
| Filed under Africa, North America, Biological Weapons, and International
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The Great Illusion by Col. Randall Larsen

In a recent Washington Examiner column, Gene Healy, a vice president at the Cato Institute, suggests that we worry too much about serious threats to national security. He posits that we are in an era of great peace and stability. To downplay the threat of bioterrorism, Mr. Healy quotes Milton Leitenberg from the University of Read More »

April 5, 2011
| Filed under Biological Weapons and Bioterrorism
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China supports efforts to strengthen the effectiveness of the BWC

China supports multilateral efforts to strengthen the effectiveness of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) and is committed to the comprehensive and strict implementation of the Convention. China has already established a comprehensive legislation system for the implementation of the Convention and set up a national point of contact. China submits annual declarations of its confidence-building Read More »

March 31, 2011
| Filed under Biological Weapons and International
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Did the Anthrax Attacks Kick-Start Iraq War?

On February 5, 2003, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell went to the United Nations, to make the case for war in Iraq. A central plank of his presentation: the anthrax attacks that killed five people and helped send the country into a panic in the days after 9/11. “Less than a teaspoon-full of dry anthrax Read More »