Weapons of Mass Destruction

May 26, 2022

Preventing Catastrophic Bioterrorism: Guarding Against Exploitation of the Life Sciences and Biotechnology

Jaime Yassif

Biology’s Tectonic Shifts and Novel Risks

Audrey Kurth Cronin

Going Viral: Implications of COVID-19 for Bioterrorism

Gary A. Ackerman, Zachary Kallenborn, Philipp C. Bleek

April 27, 2022

The Urgent Need for an Overhaul of Global Biorisk Management

Filippa Lentzos, Gregory D. Koblentz, Joseph Rodgers

A View from the CT Foxhole: Lawrence Kerr, Former Director, Office of Pandemics and Emerging Threats, Office of Global Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Paul Cruickshank, Don Rassler, Kristina Hummel

A New Age of Bioterror: Anticipating Exploitation of Tunable Viral Agents

Stephen Hummel, F. John Burpo, Jeremy Hershfield, Andrew Kick, Kevin J. O’Donovan, Jason Barnhill

September 8, 2021

Twenty Years After 9/11: Reflections from Alex Younger, Former Chief of the United Kingdom’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

Raffaello Pantucci

Twenty Years After 9/11: Reflections from Michael Morell, Former Acting Director of the CIA

Paul Cruickshank, Don Rassler, Kristina Hummel

November 20, 2020

Biosecurity in the Wake of COVID-19: The Urgent Action Needed

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon

October 22, 2020

A View from the CT Foxhole: Drew Endy, Associate Chair, Bioengineering, Stanford University

Stephen Hummel, Paul Cruickshank, Don Rassler