Gregory Koblentz, member of the Scientists Working Group on Chemical and Biological Security, co-authored a piece in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on Myanmar’s chemical weapons past. In November 2012, US President Barack Obama arrived at Aung San Suu Kyi’s mansion, the place where the iconic democracy activist had spent much of the last […]
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Trump picks official involved in Bush-era torture program as his nuclear envoy
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with The Guardian about the appointment of Marshall Billingslea as nuclear envoy. Alexandra Bell, senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said: “Now that he has been selected, Mr Billingslea has no time to lose. In less than a year, we could lose the last […]
Leveraging Cheminformatics to Bolster the Control of Chemical Warfare Agents and their Precursors
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 […]
Nuclear Insecurity
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell was a guest on the Press the Button podcast, on which she discussed the Trump Administration’s potential to be the only administration in 60 years not to start or finish a nuclear arms control agreement; the decisions facing the president sworn in in 2021; and how nuclear arms control struggles […]
Op-ed: A biotech firm made a smallpox-like virus on purpose. Nobody seems to care
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 […]
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