America’s Maginot Lines of defense The drone attacks on Barksdale Air Force shows we must learn from Israel and Ukraine in developing counter-drone technology.

#BiologicalWeapons #HybridOperations
#USA #Unprepredness
America’s Maginot lines of defense
www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/edit...

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An emerging drone threat isn’t the only storm gathering over the American homeland. On March 26, the Department of Justice announced that it had indicted...

Movie Review: Chinese Inmates endure the horrors of WWII Japanese “Experiments” in Unit “731” The Chinese thriller “731” is a wildly ambitious attempt to get a heroic horror movie out of an infamous crime against humanity. By turns macabre and moving, historical and fantasticall…

#BiologicalWeapons #WW2 #China #Japan #Unit731
#MovieReview: Chinese Inmates endure the horrors of WWII Japanese “Experiments” in Unit “731”
rogersmovienation.com/2026/04/02/m...

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The narrative jumbles and stumbles back and forth through the end game years of the Sino-Japanese War that had...

What should be done about Iran's potential secret chemical and biological weapons programs? The future course of the Iran conflict remained nearly as murky after President Donald Trump's address as it was the previous day. That's also true of the status of possible secret chemical and biolog...

#ChemicalWeapons #BiologicalWeapons #Iran #Armament #Allegation #War #USA
What should be done about Iran’s potential secret chemical and biological weapons programs?
thebulletin.org/2026/04/what...

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Eliminating Iran’s vast complex of facilities through military means, many of which appear ...

Gauteng High Court denies Dr Basson’s request to halt disciplinary proceedings Dr Wouter Basson, notorious for his role in apartheid's Project Coast, faces ongoing disciplinary proceedings as the Gauteng High Court denies his request for a permanent stay.

#ChemicalWeapons #BiologicalWeapons #ProjectCoast #SouthAfrica #Trial #Basson
Gauteng High Court denies Dr Basson’s request to halt disciplinary proceedings
dailynews.co.za/news/crime-a...

Cape Town cardiologist Dr Wouter Basson, who gained notoriety as the head of a secretive chemical and ...

#BiologicalWeapons #Deterrence #USA
This Biodeterrence "Framework" Is a Joke
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I don’t know where they’re going with this at all. This is what happens when you have a DoD WMD community that cannot think beyond its technical focus. We lack WMD analysts ...

Covid vaccine is a crime against humanity, court told - The Conservative Woman Covid vaccine is a crime against humanity, court told

#BiologicalWeapons #COVID19 #Vaccine #ConspiracyTheory
Covid vaccine is a crime against humanity, court told
www.conservativewoman.co.uk/covid-vaccin...

THE covid vaccine is a bioweapon and its architects are suspected of crimes against humanity, it was alleged during a court case in the ...

#BiologicalWeapons #Biosecurity #China #USA #Investigation
She uncovered a terrifying lab hidden in California, with alleged ties to China
www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Nearly a month after the search, it’s still not clear what was inside the Las Vegas home and what the plan was for ...

What can biosecurity learn from cybersecurity? A lot. Measures meant to mitigate human-made biological risks remain anchored in conceptual frameworks like arms control agreements and export controls. These are increasingly misaligned with the challenges ...

#BiologicalWeapons #BioSecurity #CyberSecurity #Governance
What can biosecurity learn from cybersecurity? A lot.
thebulletin.org/2026/03/what...

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Yet biosecurity measures meant to prevent or mitigate human-made biological risks remain largely anchored in conceptual frameworks inherited ...

Iran and the non-nuclear aspects of its CBRN potential Iran’s nuclear weapon programme has been extensively targeted by US/Israeli forces, but what other non-conventional options does Iran have?

#ChemicalWeapons #BiologicalWeapons #Threat #Iran #War #USA #Israelis
Does Iran have a non-conventional strategic weapon option beyond nukes?
warsight.com/2026/03/24/i...
@dankaszeta.bsky.social

With the US and Israeli military actively degrading the Iranian nuclear weapon programme, it would ...

The Annual Threat Assessment Report on WMD It's there, which is good I guess, but not terribly insightful

#ChemicalWeapons #BiologicalWeapons #Threat #USA
The Annual Threat Assessment Report on #WMD
almauroni.substack.com/p/the-annual...

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Most states with CBW programs have developed these weapons for tactical use such as targeted killings, special military operations, and CT or ...

How could artificial intelligence and distributed ledger technology support key functions of the biological weapons prohibition regime?
Find out more in this paper by Miranda Smith, Kolja Brockmann and Mark Bromley ➡️ bit.ly/3NNcLjt

#SIPRI #AI #BWC #BiologicalWeapons #ExportControls #EmergingTech

#BiologicalWeapons #WW2 #Unit731 #Japan #China
Interview: Japanese scholar emphasizes clarifying truth of history to prevent return of Japanese militarism
english.news.cn/20260319/44a...

Seiya Matsuno has spent many years studying modern Japanese history and the darkest chapters within it.
A ...

From Satellites to Synthetic Biology: The Dual-Use Dilemma Explains how dual-use technologies—spanning AI, biotech, nuclear and space systems—are reshaping modern warfare, raising biosecurity risks and governance challenges in balancing innovation with global...

#BiologicalWeapons #DualUse #Governance
From Satellites to Synthetic Biology: The Dual-Use Dilemma
www.orfonline.org/research/fro...

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Advancements in fields such as AI, additive manufacturing, biotechnology, cyber technologies, and advanced communication systems have altered the dual-use ...

Measures to strengthen international biosafety and biosecurity practices What concrete steps can we take to reinforce biorisk management immediately? In this Perspective, an international group of experts advocate for robust gatekeeping of funding and publication using a n...

#BiologicalWeapons #Biosecurity #Research #Governance
Measures to strengthen international biosafety and biosecurity practices
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

[ #OpenSource - PDF available]

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Determining the appropriate biorisk management strategy requires an evaluation of risk to ...

Preventing Biological Weapons Proliferation: Operational Applications of Emerging Technologies This policy paper discusses existing and potential applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and distributed ledger technology (DLT) that could help strengthen key functions of the biological weapo...

#BiologicalWeapons #Proliferation #Prevention @sipri.org
Preventing Biological Weapons Proliferation: Operational Applications of Emerging Technologies
www.sipri.org/publications...

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and distributed ledger technology (DLT) are reshaping how biological ...

Reasons to be pessimistic (and optimistic) on the future of biosecurity 13.2k words, 59 minutes reading time

#BiologicalWeapons #ArtificialIntelligence #Threat (or not) #Governance
Reasons to be pessimistic (and optimistic) on the future of biosecurity
www.owlposting.com/p/reasons-to...

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Yet, I still believe it is still hard to actually turn all this into something evil. And no, I do not think ...

Behavioral arms control in the century of biology This article takes as its point of departure the notion that the 21st century is the century of biology, which so far has been characterized by the growing gap between the revolution in the life sc...

#BiologicalWeapons #1972BWC #Disarmament
Behavioral arms control in the century of biology
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

[ #OpenSource - PDF available]

Gaps in transparency: understanding limited participation in confidence-building measures under the Biological Weapons Convention This article applies a mixed-methods approach to investigate barriers to participation in the confidence-building measures (CBMs) established by the parties to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Conv...

#BiologicalWeapons #1972BWC #CBMs
Gaps in transparency: understanding limited participation in confidence-building measures under the Biological Weapons Convention
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

[ #OpenSource - PDF available]

#BiologicalWeapons #HybridWarfare #Biosecurity #China #USA
Two Illegal Biolabs Reveal Gaps in U.S. Biosecurity
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/two-...

Last month, law enforcement officials launched an investigation into a suspected biolab in the Las Vegas home of Chinese national Zhu Jia Bei. Two...

#BiologicalWeapons #Threat #USA #Deterrence #Biotechnology
Biodeterrence in an Era of Convergent Threats
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As noted in both the document and the symposium, advancements in synthetic biology, gene editing, high-throughput genomic sequencing, neuroscience ...

Le Projet N de Yves Bernard et Vincent Frigon | Septentrion La bombe atomique et le décryptage de la machine Enigma sont souvent cités comme les deux secrets les mieux gardés de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Un troisième est toutefois resté dans l'ombre pendant ...

#BiologicalWeapons #Canada #WW2

New book (in French):
Le Projet N: Grosse-Île, l'arme secrète de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
www.septentrion.qc.ca/catalogue/le...

#BiologicalWeapons #Toxins #Ricin #Germany #Trial
Jugendliche Experimente mit Sprengstoff und biologischen Waffen führen zu Sozialstunden
www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/17-jaeh...

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The prosecution saw no evidence that the young man had intended to harm or injure anyone. Rather,...

Excerpt: How George Washington Weaponized Smallpox Inoculation In 1775, Washington deployed colonial soldiers who had survived smallpox to retake Boston during a city-wide epidemic.

#BiologicalWeapons #Smallpox #War #USA #Inocculation
Excerpt: How George Washington Weaponized Smallpox Inoculation
undark.org/2026/03/13/e...

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Washington knew smallpox well. The colonies had experienced some outbreaks, but they had not been as large or as frequent as those that had ...

#ChemicalWeapons #BiologicalWeapons #ArtificialIntelligence #Government #RiskManagement
AI companies are hiring chemical weapons experts for safety — while embedded in military systems
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On the surface, this looks like responsible corporate behaviour: ...

OpenAI and Ginkgo Bioworks show how AI can accelerate scientific discovery Researchers at OpenAI and Ginkgo Bioworks showed that an AI model working with an autonomous lab can design and iterate real biology experiments at unprecedented speed

#BiologicalWeapons #ArtificialIntelligence #Biotechnology #Research
AI-designed experiments run by robots hint at a new approach to biology
www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...

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While OpenAI’s GPT-5 provided the experimental designs, Ginkgo Bioworks provided what its co-founder and ...

🔵Our new pre-print examines how #AI might intersect with #bioweapons across seven key acquisition stages, emphasising actors, utilities, and processes rather than technology alone.

➡️https://ssrn.com/abstract=6299518

#disarmament #CBW #biologicalweapons #OPCW #chemicalweapons

Fundamental Research, National Security, and the Quiet Shift Facing Universities | Insights | Mayer Brown Universities and research institutes have long relied on the protections for “fundamental research” under national security laws to enable

#ChemicalWeapons #BiologicalWeapons #Research #DualUse #ExportControls
Fundamental Research, National Security, and the Quiet Shift Facing Universities
www.mayerbrown.com/en/insights/...

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Technology that arises during or results from fundamental research is not subject to US dual-use export...

Toward a UN Treaty to Ban Gain-of-Function Research: A Policy Push Meets Structural Limits As of March 13, 2026, debate over so-called gain-of-function (GoF) research has moved well beyond academic dispute into the realm of national security and global governance. In the United States, the ...

#BiologicalWeapons #DualUse #GainOfFunction #1972BWC
Toward a UN Treaty to Ban Gain-of-Function Research: A Policy Push Meets Structural Limits
www.trialsitenews.com/a/toward-a-u...

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This gap matters because a growing policy push now calls for something far more sweeping: an international ...

Tim Pool: "I'm a 2A absolutist. I'm more 2A than all y'all combined. I have argued for the private ownership of nuclear and biological weapons."

#TimPool:
“I'm a #2A absolutist. I'm more 2A than all y'all combined. I have argued for the private ownership of #nuclear and #biologicalweapons.”

www.mediamatters.org/tim-pool/tim...

#BiologicalWeapons #DiseaseSurveillance #Detection #Training
Training Course on Pathogen Detection and Biosecurity for experts from Central #Asia and #Mongolia at #ICGEB in Italy
disarmament.unoda.org/fr/updates/t...

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The training course was targeted at early/mid-career scientists with a ...