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April 3, 2020

Op-ed: National Security in the Age of Pandemics

Greg Koblentz, member of the Center’s Scientists Working Group on Biological and Chemical Security, wrote an op-ed in Defense One.

For the first time since World War II, an adversary managed to knock a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier out of service. Only this time the enemy was a virus, not a nation-state. The fact that we ‘lost’ the ultimate symbol of American military power to an invisible opponent should send shock waves through the national security community, because in its race to prepare the country for renewed great power competition with Russia and China, it has largely ignored a potentially greater threat: pandemic disease. Read more

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

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