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Then-US President Barack Obama and then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev issue a joint statement announcing their pursuit of a New START treaty in London in April 2009. (White House photo by Pete Souza.)

Prevent the outbreak of another global security threat. Extend New START.

By Daryl G. Kimball | Analysis, Biosecurity, Nuclear Weapons

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On biolabs and pandemic risk: Listen to Scientific American’s interview with editor Elisabeth Eaves

By Thomas Gaulkin | Biosecurity, Interviews

A contact tracer conducts an interview.

Can a smartphone app help us turn the coronavirus corner and go outside again?

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

Drone pandemic: Will coronavirus invite the world to meet Big Brother?

By Thomas Gaulkin | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

Vladimir Putin at the Almazov National Medical Research Centre in St. Petersburg, 2017.

Coronavirus in Russia: How Putin’s disinformation efforts could backfire at home

By Judy Twigg | Biosecurity

A biosafety level 4 lab.

Experts know the new coronavirus is not a bioweapon. They disagree on whether it could have leaked from a research lab

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

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Ventilators for coronavirus patients: Why automakers aren’t the right source

By Ivan Oelrich | Biosecurity, Opinion

Bioterrorism exercises

How to keep the new coronavirus from being used as a terrorist weapon

By Richard Pilch | Analysis, Biosecurity

Coronavirus overview: How political ideology and governmental incompetence can kill you

By John Mecklin | Biosecurity

Kids are drawing pictures of the new coronavirus. That’s a good thing.

By Thomas Gaulkin | Biosecurity, Multimedia

Hot zone in the heartland?

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity

White House press briefing on coronavirus

Coronavirus coverage: where the media have gone wrong

By Dawn Stover | Biosecurity, Columnists