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A golden-white smoke wafts in the air around South Korean anti-terrorist soldiers take part in an anti-terror drill to prepare for chemical and drone attacks, at Korea International Exhibition Center, in Goyang, South Korea, on October 27, 2022.

A Plan B to Strengthen Biosafety and Biosecurity

by Gregory D. Koblentz, Filippa Lentzos

A "minilateral" approach is needed to strengthen global biorisk management

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks during an address where he says that Russian forces could use chemical weapons in Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 11, 2022 i

The World is Unprepared for the Unthinkable

by Brian McCloskey, Jennifer B. Nuzzo, David Heymann

A biological attack anywhere would have profound and far-reaching political, military, and health consequences

A large yellow biohazard sign on the wall at the bio-containment facility at Spiez Laboratory, available to WHO as a repository for COVID viruses and other pathogens with pandemic potential, in Spiez, Switzerland, June 8, 2022.
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Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention's Contributions to Global Health Security

by Aurelia Attal-Juncqua, Matthew Shearer, Gigi Kwik Gronvall

Countering Russian disinformation creates opportunities to enhance the BWC's role against dangerous pathogens

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on COVID-19 in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, in Washington, DC, on March 30, 2022.
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U.S. Foreign Policy, Global Health, and the Challenge of Institutional Reform

by David P. Fidler

Rethinking U.S. engagement on global health requires transforming domestic and international institutions

A laboratory worker in blue scrubs holds samples of poultry entrails to test them for bird flu in a laboratory in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk December 7, 2005.
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Disarming Russia's Bioweapons Disinformation

by Erin M. Sorrell, Julie E. Fischer, Gigi Kwik Gronvall

Protecting Ukraine's laboratory infrastructure is crucial to prevent a health crisis

A Ukrainian scientist holds plant shoots in test tubes in her laboratory in Hlukhiv, Ukraine
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Proving a Negative

by Cindy Groff Vindman

There are no bioweapons in Ukraine