Focus Areas

Deliberate Biological Threats

Identifying, analyzing, and informing leaders about new and emerging threats to the public’s health and security.

Below are some recent publications and projects related to the biological, chemical and nuclear threats. Click on the links at the bottom of each column to view all work in this focus area.

Recent Projects

Boosting NATO Resilience to Biological Threats

Project supported by: Open Philanthropy Project

PASCC US: India Biosecurity Dialogue

Project supported by: Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Naval Postgraduate School, Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering WMD

Red Teaming Global Catastrophic Biological Risks

Project supported by: Open Philanthropy Project

A Framework to Analyze the Pandemic Potential of Pathogens

Project supported by: Open Philanthropy Project

Recent Publications

Missing Links: Understanding Sex- and Gender-Related Impacts of Chemical and Biological Weapons
UNIDIR
Biological Threats to US National Security
Recent Advances in Gene Editing and Synthesis Technologies and their Implications
The Security Implications of Synthetic Biology
Survival
Red Teaming the Biological Sciences for Deliberate Threats
Terrorism and Political Violence

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