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Biological and Chemical Weapons

December 7, 2020

Death by DNA

Gregory Koblentz, a member of the Center’s Scientists Working Group, spoke with BBC Radio 4 about the threats posed by technological advances in DNA. Listen now Has DNA technology advanced so far that a rogue scientist, or even a biologically competent terrorist, could assemble a deadly pathogen from genetic sequences bought by mail order? The complete […]

Posted in: Biological and Chemical Weapons, Center in the News, Press Room

September 25, 2020

Hold Russia accountable for latest chemical weapons attack

Scientists Working Group member Gregory Koblentz co-authored an op-ed in The Hill about the need to hold Russia accountable for its most recent chemical weapons attack against Alexei Navalny. To uphold long-standing international norms and laws against the use of chemical weapons, Washington and its allies should impose meaningful sanctions on Moscow. Russia has repeatedly […]

Posted in: Biological and Chemical Weapons, Center in the News, Press & In the News on Russia, Press Room

September 21, 2020

Scientists Working Group Co-Founder Dies at 100

The Pandora Report is sad to report that James F. Leonard passed away recently at the age of 100. Ambassador Leonard was an ardent and articulate advocate for arms control and nonproliferation. As Assistant Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) from 1969-1973, Ambassador Leonard was the lead U.S. negotiator for the 1972 […]

Posted in: Biological and Chemical Weapons

July 28, 2020

Survivor of 1988 Chemical Weapons Attack Shares His Story

Mariwan Hama was 8 years old when he was a victim of a chemical weapons attack. It was 1988, during the closing days of the Iran-Iraq War, and the Iraqi military gassed ethnic Kurdish civilians in their own country with a lethal cocktail of mustard gas, sarin and VX nerve agents in what would become […]

Posted in: Biological and Chemical Weapons, Nukes of Hazard blog, Nukes of Hazard podcast

June 26, 2020

The pandemic risk of an accidental lab leak of enhanced flu virus: unacceptably high

Lynn Klotz, a Senior Science Fellow at the Center, published an article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists about the potential risk involved in a lab accident that releases a flu virus. Why consider the risk of lab accident that releases an influenza virus into the community? Because scientists in various countries continue to […]

Posted in: Biological and Chemical Weapons, Center in the News, Press Room

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