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Biological Weapons Convention

Representatives to the Biological Weapons Convention meet.

As bioweapons negotiators prepare to meet amid a pandemic and torrents of disinformation, can they accomplish anything?

By Yong-Bee Lim | Biosecurity

Thrips palmi

Russia finds another stage for the Ukraine “biolabs” disinformation show

By Filippa Lentzos, Jez Littlewood | Biosecurity

A biological weapons threat to Ukraine is a biological weapons threat to the world

By Asha M. George | Biosecurity

Stepnogorsk biologial weapons plant.

Amid false Russian allegations of US “biolabs” in Ukraine, it’s worth asking: What is a bioweapon?

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

Public health lab in Georgia.

Russian nuclear and biological disinformation undermines treaties on weapons of mass destruction

By Milton Leitenberg | Biosecurity, Chemical Weapons, Nuclear Weapons

Representatives to the Biological Weapons Convention meet.

Don’t let finger-pointing doom this key treaty against bioweapons

By Filippa Lentzos, Jez Littlewood | Biosecurity

UN weapons inspectors

Introduction: UNSCOM and the future of WMD verification

By Henrietta Wilson, Filippa Lentzos | Disruptive Technologies

US Marine Corps practice responding to weapons of mass destruction scenarios.

Could the bioweapons treaty be another tool for addressing pandemics?

By Daniel Gerstein | Disruptive Technologies, Uncategorized

Soldiers practice responding to a chemical or biological weapons attack.

How Russia worked to undermine UN bioweapons investigations

By Filippa Lentzos, Jez Littlewood | Chemical Weapons

A screen shot of the AMY1 gene from Arabidopsis thaliana, a small flowering plant widely used as a model organism in plant biology. (US government photo)

How to protect the world from ultra-targeted biological weapons

By Filippa Lentzos | Biosecurity, Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Synthetic biology

A disease detective during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Liberia.

Scientists are working on vaccines that spread like a disease. What could possibly go wrong?

By Filippa Lentzos, Guy Reeves | Biosecurity

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