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A focus on banning chemical and biological weapons (#CBW) and related issues.
#BiologicalWeapons #ArtificialIntelligence #Governance #USA #Congress Artificial Intelligence And Growing Biosecurity Concerns – Analysis www.eurasiareview.com/04082026-art... PDF: www.congress.gov/crs_external... Artificial intelligence (AI) is a term generally used to refer to computerized ...
#BiologicalWeapons #Threat #Scenario Possible Is Not Plausible: How Nightmare Scenarios Hijack Unconventional Weapons Policy warontherocks.com/possible-is-... [...] Executive agencies and Congress have drastically cut down opportunities for successful unconventional weapons policy formation ...
Possible Is Not Plausible: How Nightmare Scenarios Hijack Unconventional Weapons Policy
Current conversations surrounding unconventional weapons — chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear — have become so fantastical as to be
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#ChemicalWeapons #ChemicalSecurity #War #Russia #Ukraine Russian Strike Causes Hazardous Chemical Leak at Critical Infrastructure Site in Ukraine's Poltava Region united24media.com/war-in-ukrai... A Russian strike on a critical infrastructure facility in Ukraine's Poltava region on August 2 ...
Russian Strike Causes Hazardous Chemical Leak at Critical Infrastructure Site in Ukraine's Poltava Region
A Russian strike on a Poltava region facility caused a hazardous chemical leak, prompting emergency response and containment efforts by Ukrainian specialists.
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#ChemicalWeapons #AgentOrange #Vietnam #Victims Thousands of people will participate in a walk for victims of Agent Orange www.vietnam.vn/en/hang-ngan... [...] According to statistics, approximately 4.8 million Vietnamese people have been exposed to Agent Orange/dioxin, with millions suffering...
Thousands of people will participate in a walk for victims of Agent Orange.
VHO - Ho Chi Minh City is organizing a walk for victims of Agent Orange in 2026, calling on the community to join hands in supporting and spreading the spirit of compassion and social responsibility.
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#ChemicalWeapons @OPWC #Namibia Namibian diplomat appointed Deputy Director General of Global Chemical Weapons Body economist.com.na/108624/busin... [...] In her new role as the second most senior official, Kaapanda-Girnus will advance the Organisation’s mission to implement the provisions ...
#BiologicalWeapons #Anthrax #Countermeasures A lipid switch that blocks anthrax www.myscience.ch/en/news/2026... [...] Blocking APT2 had striking effects. The researchers found that CMG2 remained protected during its production, increasing the amount of this protein available in cells ...
#Biosecurity #PublicHealth #Europe #GlobalWarming Tropical Diseases Like #Dengue Fever and #Chikungunya Are on the Rise in Europe www.wired.com/story/tropic... [...] As climate change increases temperatures across Europe, invasive mosquitoes are spreading and introducing disease agents ...
Tropical Diseases Like Dengue Fever and Chikungunya Are on the Rise in Europe
Climate change is helping invasive species to not only establish themselves across the continent but to stay alive for longer. Scientists suggest we get used to it.
wired.com
#BiologicalWeapons #Threat #Epidemic No One Makes Good Policy Based on Worst Case Scenarios almauroni.substack.com/p/no-one-mak... [...] Let’s look closer at her op-ed, which focuses on efforts to prepare the United States from a biological attack. One of the most significant problems with the ...
No One Makes Good Policy Based on Worst Case Scenarios
It's way past time to stop admiring the advice of doom-sayers
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#ChemicalWeapons #WW2 #China #Japan China urges Japan to speed up destruction of abandoned chemical weapons www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202607/30/... [...] Under the timeline set by the convention and the memorandum, Japan was required to complete the destruction of all abandoned chemical ...
China urges Japan to speed up destruction of abandoned chemical weapons
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#ChemicalWeapons #Sudan #USA #SaudiArabia #Sanctions Sanctioning Sudan’s Army: Washington’s Chemical Weapons Red Line Meets Riyadh’s Realpolitik moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/07/31/s... [...] Yet the real strategic tension lies not only in Khartoum but also in Riyadh. On the face of it, Saudi Arabia ...
Sanctioning Sudan’s Army: Washington’s Chemical Weapons Red Line Meets Riyadh’s Realpolitik
The new US sanctions on SAF, which took effect this month, mark a decisive escalation in Washington’s attempt to enforce the global taboo on chemical weapons
moderndiplomacy.eu
#ChemicalWeapons #AgentOrange #Vietnam #Commemoration Addressing the consequences of Agent Orange www.vietnam.vn/en/khac-phuc... [...] Currently, nationwide, more than 320,000 people who participated in the resistance war and their children affected by chemical toxins are entitled to ...
Addressing the consequences of Agent Orange
For over half a century, the Vietnamese people have suffered the devastating consequences of the chemical warfare waged by the United States. Overcoming the effects of chemical toxins has immense poli...
vietnam.vn
#BiologicalWeapons #GeneticEngineering #Threat The terrifying threat of a genetically engineered plague www.economist.com/culture/2026... [...] In this imagined scenario, there is an explosion at an infectious-disease research facility in Siberia, where scientists genetically alter bacteria ...
The terrifying threat of a genetically engineered plague
Annie Jacobsen imagines the repercussions of a leak from a Russian laboratory
economist.com
#BiologicalWeapons #Biosecurity #MirrorLife A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life www.rand.org/pubs/researc... [ #OpenSource - PDF available] Mirror life is a hypothetical form of life built from biomolecules with the opposite chirality—or molecular orientation—of those ...
A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life
RAND researchers present a strategy for the United States to prevent the creation of mirror life by anyone, anywhere.
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#ChemicalWeapons #China #Japan #WW2 Japan should expedite the disposal of Japanese ACWs: Defense Spokesperson eng.mod.gov.cn/2025xb/P/164... [...] July 30, 2026 marks the 27th anniversary of the signing of the memorandum between the governments of the PRC and Japan on the destruction of ...
#Smallpox #Colonialism #SouthAmerica #EarlyModernTimes ‘This Is Very Strange’: Ancient Smallpox May Have Been Less Deadly www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/s... [...] Historians have long suspected that Europeans brought smallpox to the New World, and that it then helped drive down the ...
‘This Is Very Strange’: Ancient Smallpox May Have Been Less Deadly
Scientists have found smallpox viruses in the remains of people in Chile from around 500 years ago, revealing how the virus may have evolved into a global killer.
nytimes.com
#Biosecurity #COVID19 #China #USA Chinese military shipped coronavirus vials to U.S. more than a year before pandemic www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/ju... A Chinese military scientist covertly sent vials of a coronavirus to a Minnesota laboratory in 2018 — highlighting the People’s ...
Chinese military shipped coronavirus vials to U.S. more than a year before pandemic
A Chinese military scientist covertly sent vials of a coronavirus to a Minnesota laboratory in 2018 — highlighting the People’s Liberation Army’s work on viruses similar to the one that caused the COV...
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#Disease #InsectVector #Mosquito THE MOSQUITO PROJECT highcountryobservations.substack.com/p/the-mosqui... Most Americans rarely think about mosquitoes beyond the annoyance they create during summer evenings. They are treated as a seasonal inconvenience, an unavoidable part of spending time ...
THE MOSQUITO PROJECT
Disease Control, Federal Authority, and the Legal Framework Behind Releasing Millions of Insects. HCO FIELD NOTES. May, 2026.
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#Ebola #Epidemic #Africa #Congo #Zaire #DiseaseSurveillance Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detected www.science.org/content/arti... Mysterious deaths that extinguished entire families. A cemetery unable to cope with the flood of dead bodies. Taxi drivers ...
EXCLUSIVE: Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detected
A remote mining town gripped by fear saw hundreds of suspected cases before the government declared an outbreak, report says
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#Smallpox #Colonialism #SouthAmerica #EarlyModernTimes 500-year-old Inca mummies prove that European colonists brought devastating smallpox to the Americas www.livescience.com/archaeology/... Two Chilean mummies have provided scientists with the earliest known smallpox genomes found in the ...
#Science #ArtificialIntelligence #Governance AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... [...] The creation of robust human-curated scientific literature has never been more crucial. The propagation of AI slop in the scientific record and ...
AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive
There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...
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#BiologicalWeapons #ArtificialIntelligence #Governance AI executives worry about their technologies aiding bioterrorists. How likely is that? thebulletin.org/2026/07/ai-e... Modern AI might be just the bridge a would-be terrorist needs to cross between thinking about a biological attack ...
AI executives worry about their technologies aiding bioterrorists. How likely is that?
Plenty of hurdles remain for anyone hoping to use fast-improving AI to develop a bioweapon, but, as one expert notes, "Where we will find ourselves a year from now is likely to be, without interventio...
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#ChemicalWeapons #Syria #Russia #Douma #Disinformation #Lawfare #OPCW #Investigation Russian Disinformation and the OPCW: An Analysis of Russian Efforts to Undermine the FFM and IIT Investigations into the 2018 Douma Chemical Attack studenttheses.uu.nl/items/99c77c... [ #OpenSource - PDF available]
#ChemicalWeapons #OPCW Sabrina Dallafior begins term as new Director-General of the OPCW www.opcw.org/media-centre... Sabrina Dallafior today assumed office as Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), becoming the ...
Sabrina Dallafior begins term as new Director-General of the OPCW
Director-General Dallafior sets out early priorities to uphold the Chemical Weapons Convention and deliver the OPCW’s work worldwide
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#ChemicalWeapons #History #UK #Navy #Dundonald Royal Navy commander plotted chemical weapons attack against US in world first www.gbnews.com/news/royal-n... A Royal Navy commander plotted a chemical weapons attack against the United States in what would have been a world first at the ...
Royal Navy commander plotted chemical weapons attack against US in world first
Had his plan gone ahead, warfare to this day would look markedly different
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#BiologicalWeapons #Biosecurity #Prevention #UK #USA The UK Has a Solid Biological Security Strategy almauroni.substack.com/p/the-uk-has... [...] The UK government just released its latest implementation report on its biological security strategy, covering July 2025 through July 2026. It’s ...
The UK Has a Solid Biological Security Strategy
Would that the United States had the courage to parallel that direction
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#ChemicalWeapons #France #Algeria Toxic Colonisation: How France waged secret chemical warfare in Algeria www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj7g... The documentary is now available on YouTube.
Toxic Colonisation: How France waged secret chemical warfare in Algeria | Featured Documentary
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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#BiologicalWeapons #Biosecurity #Africa #Biotechnology #Laboratory Africa’s pandemic preparedness improves, but safety gaps remain www.nature.com/articles/d44... [...] The 2026 Africa Health Security Index, released today, found that the scores of 52 of Africa’s 54 countries improved by at ...
Africa’s pandemic preparedness improves, but safety gaps remain
A new Africa-specific health security index finds strong gains in laboratories and disease surveillance since 2021, but biosecurity, biosafety and systems for delivering vaccines and treatments contin...
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#Biosecurity #USA #Smuggling Smuggling charges against NIH virologists trigger political uproar www.nature.com/articles/d41... [...] The case is the latest in a string of prosecutions of researchers for smuggling biological samples. It has brought further scrutiny to Munster and Kwe’s workplace,...
Smuggling charges against NIH virologists trigger political uproar
Other researchers say that non-infectious viral samples in luggage posed no risk, but might have violated import rules.
nature.com
#BiologicalWeapons #Biosecurity #Africa #Biotechnology #Laboratory Africa’s expanding laboratories outpace biosecurity safeguards www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/afr... New health security index warns that weak oversight of dual-use research and biological materials in Africa could turn growing ...
Africa’s expanding laboratories outpace biosecurity safeguards - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.
Weak oversight of dual-use research Africa could turn growing biotech into a liability.
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#ChemicalWeapons #AgentOrange #Vietnam #Victim 65 years since the Agent Orange disaster and the journey to alleviate the pain www.vietnam.vn/en/65-nam-th... [...] Meanwhile, in its role, on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the Agent Orange disaster in Vietnam (August 10, 1961 - ...
65 years since the Agent Orange disaster and the journey to alleviate the pain.
Currently, there are still over 1 million victims of Agent Orange in Vietnam, and these victims and their families are facing long-term illnesses and birth defects that affect generations. The war is ...
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