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SARS-CoV-2: International Investigation Under the WHO or BWC

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
In late 2019, the novel and highly infectious coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 caused a worldwide outbreak of a severe respiratory infectious disease, known as COVID-19.
Mirko Himmel, Stefan Frey
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U.S. Biowarfare Labs in Post-Soviet States

Вестник войск РХБ защиты, 2023
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to the creation of 15 weak states that have on their territory the remnants of the defensive infrastructure of the mighty superpower – the USSR.
Ján Lakota
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Meeting the challenges of biological threats and bioweapons in the 21st century [PDF]

Sociološki Pregled, 2022
Biological warfare has attracted people since the earliest times. During the Cold War, bio-weapons were part of the arsenal of both world superpowers. The Convention prohibiting the production, storage, transfer and use of potential biological weapons ...
Ristanović Elizabeta S., Buršaid Al-Daheri Mubarak S.A.   +1 more
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For the 60th anniversary of the creation of the Scientific and Research Technical Bureau

Вестник войск РХБ защиты, 2023
In the historical perspective, the stages of formation and the main activities of the Scientific and Research Technical Bureau are considered. It is the profile organization of the Ministry of Defence, which dealt with the design of a laboratory and ...
D. L. Poklonskii
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Preamble [PDF]

, 2000
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Pearson, Graham S., Sims, N.A.
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Historical Aspects of Bioterrorism: Factors Determining the Possibility of Using Pathogenic Biological Agents as Biological Weapons

Проблемы особо опасных инфекций
Every year, the number of potentially life-threatening pathogenic biological agents (PBAs) is rapidly growing, which are represented by viruses, bacteria, rickettsia, chlamydia, protozoa, fungi, genetically engineered constructs and modified ...
M. A. Yudin, A. S. Bogacheva, A. L. Buzmakova, A. V. Potapova, A. V. Romanova, D. O. Kalyakina, V. V. Shilov   +6 more
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Building and implementing a multi-level system of ethical code for biologists under the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) of the United Nations

Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity, 2021
The recent global COVID-19 pandemic has had profound economic and social impacts on the world. It has highlighted an urgent need to strengthen existing international biosecurity governance mechanisms to prevent the misuse and malicious abuse of life ...
Yang Xue, Lijun Shang, Weiwen Zhang
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Dual Use Research of Concern-The Necessity of Global Bioethics Engagement. [PDF]

Bioethics
ABSTRACT Dual use research of concern (DURC) refers to research conducted for legitimate scientific purposes that could also be misused to pose a significant threat to public health and safety, agricultural crops and other plants, animals, the environment, or national security.
Hurst DJ, Bobier CA.
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Intelligence, Ignorance, and Diplomacy in the Cold War

Journal for the History of Knowledge, 2021
Drawing on perspectives from “ignorance studies,” this article examines a case of multiple types of expertise and ignorance within the geo-political context of the Cold War. It revisits a suspected breach of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).
Brian Balmer
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Defining the Debate on Controlling Biological Weapons [PDF]

, 2001
Looks at the 1972 Biological and Toxins Weapons Convention, and outlines the series of measures being negotiated by the world community to create a strong, effective, and enforceable biological weapons ...
B. Alan Rosenberg
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