Dec 28, 2007
Congress's failure to end the disastrous Iraq War in 2007 masked a series of less visible but nonetheless important triumphs on national security issues.
Dec 19, 2007
National implementation of the BTWC requires that States Parties implement Article I prohibiting the production, development, acquisition, stockpiling or retention of biological agents and toxins of types and in quantities that have no prophylactic, protective or other peaceful purposes in their territory or under their control. NGOs have a role to play.
Nov 19, 2007
Growing government interest in exploiting advances in the life sciences to develop chemical incapacitants for use in hostage rescue, counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency and urban warfare threatens to introduce a new category of chemical weapons.
Oct 4, 2007
Over the last six years, the Federal government has dramatically increased US research and development activity and infrastructure focused on biological weapons agents.
Oct 1, 2007
The damage that might be wrought by some "biohackers" would be much more difficult to deal with than that caused by their computer hacker brethren.
Jun 6, 2007
The Administration is proposing an additional $6.77 billion in bioweapons-related spending, approximately $550 million (9%) more than the amount that Congress appropriated for FY2007.
Jun 1, 2006
On June 1, 2006 the international Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission released its report "Weapons of Terror: Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Arms."
Mar 24, 2005
On Thursday, March 17, 2005 the Scientist Working Group had two letters published in the Washington Post.
Mar 1, 2005
The letter expresses concern about the decrease in support for research on basic microbial physiology, genetics, and pathogenesis that has occurred as
a consequence of the NIH decision in 2001-2002 to prioritize research on
bioweapons agents.
Jan 25, 2005
No one should assume that WHO is the last and only resort for investigating the use of disease as a weapon.
Jan 18, 2005
The tabletop simulation used unrealistic assumptions to project massive casualties and scare the public and Western governments into thinking there is a strong potential for an attack that is actually unlikely to occur, the experts said.
Dec 10, 2004
The Scientists Working Group on Biological and Chemical Weapons addresses a Biological Weapons Convention meeting.
Dec 9, 2004
The report explains the dangers posed bytraditional and potentially new biological weapons and describes some of the many steps governmentscan and should take to reduce the threat.
Aug 4, 2004
Alan M. Pearson has been appointed as the Director of the Biological and Chemical Weapons Control Program at the Center.
Jan 7, 2004
The Working Group, founded in 1989, has joined the Center’s newly expanded program on biological and chemical weapons control.
Oct 7, 2003
The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation criticized the federal government today for undercutting its own non-proliferation and homeland security policies by selling equipment that can be used to make biological weapons.
Mar 27, 2003
A Baltimore Sun article on the U.S. preventive war to eliminate Iraq’s chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs.
Mar 27, 2003
The United States does not know exactly what chemical or biological weapons Iraq possesses and does not know exactly what their impact would be on U.S. forces; but Iraq is limited in its delivery capability.
Mar 25, 2003
In the interest of national and global security, the United States and all of its allies must uphold the standards of international behavior that they seek to enforce and must not use chemical incapacitating agents or chemical riot control agents in the war with Iraq.
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