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Why cooperative threat reduction still matters—Especially for biological dangers
In: Bulletin of the atomic scientists, Band 72, Heft 5, S. 322-331
ISSN: 1938-3282
Pathogens and arms control: can bioscience police itself?
In: Survival: global politics and strategy, Band 52, Heft 5, S. 117-134
ISSN: 0039-6338
Revolutionary advances in the life sciences are poised to have a transformative global impact. However, today's cutting-edge life-sciences techniques, knowledge, materials and equipment can also be deliberately or inadvertently misapplied, with potentially catastrophic effects. Several recent experiments have sparked debate over the need for stepped-up oversight of life-sciences research. With varying degrees of success, in advance of regulatory requirements industries and professional associations have acted to address societal concerns about various products and to police the conduct of practitioners of select disciplines. Life-sciences communities are currently coming to grips with how to respond to the potential for the deliberate misuse of their know-how, technology, materials and equipment. (Survival / SWP)
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Pathogens and Arms Control: Can Bioscience Police Itself?
In: Survival: global politics and strategy, Band 52, Heft 5, S. 117-134
ISSN: 1468-2699
A Review of: "Deadly Enemies": directed and produced by Susan Lambert, 2004. 51 minutes. Distributed by First Run/Icarus Films. Contact: (718) 488–8900 or mailroom@frif.com
In: Political communication: an international journal, Band 23, Heft 3, S. 374-375
ISSN: 1091-7675
A call for tighter policing tools for biological weapons
In: Bulletin / BICC, Bonn International Center for Conversion, Heft 35, S. 1-2
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Biological weapons: can fear overwhelm inaction?
In: The Washington quarterly, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 165-178
ISSN: 0163-660X, 0147-1465
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Biological weapons: Can fear overwhelm inaction?
In: The Washington quarterly, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 165-178
ISSN: 1530-9177
Recharging the chemical weapons convention
In: Arms control today, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 6-11
ISSN: 0196-125X
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Biological Weapons: Can Fear Overwhelm Inaction?
In: The Washington quarterly, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 165-178
ISSN: 0163-660X, 0147-1465
Discusses difficulties involved in implementing a worldwide ban on biological weapons. Major obstacles to establishing an international norm against biological weapons include the reality that some individuals/groups will do anything to win a territorial or ideological battle; the dual-use nature of the equipment & knowledge needed to make biological weapons; & world leaders who condemn others for having biological weapons but insist on keep such weapons themselves. International attempts to develop a global norm against biological weapons are traced from the 1925 Geneva Protocol & include the 1972 Biological & Toxin Weapons Conventions (BWC) & export controls on dual-use items. Problems that have plagued the BWC since its adoption are pointed out. Talks to explore the feasibility of monitoring the treaty led to a draft protocol in 2001 that was rejected by the US on grounds that it would jeopardize trade secrets & national security. Although the US proposed initiatives to substitute for a monitoring protocol, multilateral action to enforce a norm against biological weapons is unlikely in the near future. J. Lindroth
Tall Order: Crafting a Meaningful Verification Protocol for the Biological Weapons Convention
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS ; a journal of political behavior, ethics, and policy, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 79-85
ISSN: 1471-5457
SYMPOSIUM - Tall Order: Crafting a Meaningful Verification Protocol for the Biological Weapons Convention
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 79-85
ISSN: 0730-9384
Senate emasculates treaty
In: Bulletin of the atomic scientists, Band 54, Heft 4, S. 6-6
ISSN: 1938-3282
Guest opinion
In: The bulletin of the atomic scientists: a magazine of science and public affairs, Band 54, Heft 4, S. 6
ISSN: 0096-3402, 0096-5243, 0742-3829
Playing politics with the Chemical Weapons Convention
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 96, Heft 609, S. 162-166
ISSN: 0011-3530
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