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What can a pandemic teach us about nuclear threats?

By Ted Lieu | Biosecurity, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Uncategorized

The A1 Verse: Tragedy from Texas to Transylvania

By Thomas Gaulkin | Biosecurity

Profiting from panic: the bizarre bogus cures and scams of the coronavirus era

By Alaa Ghoneim, Saiful Salihudin, Isra Thange, Anne Wen, Jan Oledan, Jacob N. Shapiro | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

The A1 Verse: the pandemic that ate the economy

By Thomas Gaulkin | Biosecurity

coronavirus as seen through scanning electron microscope

Assessing the US government response to the coronavirus

By Daniel M. Gerstein | Biosecurity

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A pandemic of bad science

By Walter Scheirer | Biosecurity, Science Denial

Representatives to the Biological Weapons Convention meet.

Twenty-first century perspectives on the Biological Weapon Convention: Continued relevance or toothless paper tiger

By Glenn Cross, Lynn Klotz | Biosecurity

Biological researcher He Jiankui (right) attends the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing at the University of Hong Kong on November 28, 2018 in Hong Kong, China. Photo by Zhang Wei/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images.

Follow the money: What the sources of Jiankui He’s funding reveal about what Beijing authorities knew about illegal CRISPR babies, and when they knew it

By Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley, Kathleen M. Vogel | Biosecurity

Cinderella Castle at Walt Disney World. (Photo by Jedi94 via Wikimedia.)

Today’s A1 Verse: Disney World and the coronavirus

By Thomas Gaulkin | Biosecurity

Boris Johnson posts a thank you message.

A jet ski vacation during the coronavirus lockdown? Online liars want to make you mad at politicians

By Giorgio Musto, Kamya Yadav, Audrey Yan, Jan Oledan, Jacob N. Shapiro | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

Donald Trump meets with Mark Zuckerberg.

The pandemic, protests, and election are putting social media content policies under a microscope

By Justin Sherman | Technology and Security

Pandemic failure or convenient scapegoat: How did WHO get here?

By Thomas Gaulkin | Biosecurity