Deterring Russia’s Biological, Chemical and Nuclear Threat
Biological, Chemical, and Nuclear Weapons: Can the West deter Russia from using them? The National Committee on American Foreign Policy ...
Tag: Biological Weapons Convention
4 Essential Reads to Understand Russia’s False Claims About Biological Weapons in Ukraine
On March 11, 2022, Vasily Nebenzya, Russia’s U.N. ambassador, told the U.N. Security Council that Russia had discovered evidence of ...
The U.S. Government Responds to False Allegations Targeted at the DoD Cooperative Threat Reduction Program
DoD's Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program, executed by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), aims to peacefully reduce biological threats ...
Looking Back at the Biological Threat Reduction Program Through the Decades
This year marks three decades of collaboration spearheaded by the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program with foreign partners ...
Nobody is Checking for Violations of the Biological Weapons Convention
A global treaty bans development or stockpiling of biological weapons — but allows biodefense planning. Scientists are making dramatic progress ...
State Department: Reducing Revisionist State Biological and Chemical Weapons Threats
The Department of State’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction (ISN/CTR) is funding cooperative agreements ...
An Ambitious Goal: Reducing Biothreats and Making Bioweapons Obsolete
In a report released this week, Making Bioweapons Obsolete: A Summary of Workshop Discussions, Sandia National Laboratories and the Council ...
Is There a Role For the BWC in Oversight of Lab-Created Potential Pandemic Pathogens?
Research by Ron Fouchier in the Netherlands and Yoshihiro Kawaoka in Madison, Wisconsin marked the beginning of a "gain-of-function" research, ...
Pentagon Threat Reduction Advisory Committee Meeting
The Federal Advisory Committee meeting of the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee (TRAC) will meet Monday, August 26 at the Pentagon ...
