Biological War tells the story of a hypothetical but realistic pathogen that quickly causes anarchy and mass casualties around the world.
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The Epidemic Intelligence Service has been a crucial tool in fighting diseases at home and abroad. Its impact would be impossible to replace.
The Russian government used disinformation to fabricate a justification for invading Ukraine. A new campaign focused on biowarfare claims threatens to escalate the conflict.
Scientists have created tiny self-replicating organisms made from frog stem cells. So is this as much of a Pandora’s Box as it sounds? Not yet, but we should carefully weigh the risks and rewards.
The sketchy history of international efforts to control bioweapons suggests that nations will resist cooperative monitoring of gene hacking for medical research.
The paradox of the stockpile is that it’s meant to protect against future threats, but is limited by today’s imagination about what those threats might be.
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Honorary Senior Fellow, Department of War Studies, King's College London
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Professor of Practice of Computing Security, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Adjunct Instructor in Cybersecurity, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington
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Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies, University of Washington
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Professor of the Practice of Politics and Crown Family Director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University
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Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Ethics; Deputy Director, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, The University of Melbourne
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Health Scientist, University of Illinois Chicago
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Professor of Epidemiology, University of Illinois Chicago
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Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Western Sydney University