Top Expert to Blog from International Meeting on Biological Weapons

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 15, 2008
CONTACT: Alan Pearson

Washington, D.C. – Dr. Alan Pearson, Director of the Biological and Chemical Weapons Control Program at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, will attend and blog from a major international meeting in Geneva next week.

The 2008 Meeting of Experts of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) will focus on the oversight and regulation of biodefense and other research in the life sciences, as well as measures to improve biosafety and biosecurity. These politically contentious issues have gained renewed attention in the United States following the FBI’s conclusion that the 2001 anthrax attacks were an inside job by Army biodefense researcher Bruce Ivins.

From Monday, August 18 - Friday, August 22, Pearson will post daily updates on the Center’s website here.

For background on the BWC, click here. For information on key issues addressed at previous meetings, click here.

Learn more about the Center’s Biological and Chemical Weapons Control Program.