Greg Koblentz, member of our Scientists Working Group, co-authored an article in Strategic Trade Research. Abstract: International frameworks and national legislation contain lists of controlled chemicals that can be employed as chemical warfare agents or precursors for their synthesis. The development and wide adoption of a cheminformatics tool could overcome several practical problems inherent to […]

Scientists Working Group member Gregory Koblentz wrote an op-ed in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on manufacturing a bioweapon. In 2017, the virologist David Evans made headlines when he used synthetic biology to recreate the extinct horsepox virus, which is closely related to the virus that causes smallpox, a disease eradicated in 1980. Evans […]

Gregory Koblentz, member of our Scientists Working Group, wrote an article in The Nonproliferation Review on recent chemical weapons use in Syria. ABSTRACT: International efforts to hold the government of President Bashar al-Assad accountable for the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Civil War have entered a new phase. For the first time, the […]

Gregory Koblentz, member of our Scientists Working Group, co-authored an article in The Nonproliferation Review on revising the Chemical Weapons Convention schedules. ABSTRACT: Novichok agents are a class of nerve agents developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. In light of the use of a Novichok agent in Salisbury in March 2018, two […]