Biological Weapons

This timely book examines the evolving threat landscape of lethal chemical and biological weapons (CBW) and toxins. It places them in the broader context of key global events like the… Continue reading M. Bhushan, Silent Weapons Deadly Weapons: Unveiling the Bioweapons Arms Race, Pathak Publishers and Distributors, 2024, pp. 148

• Saman Ayesha Kidwai
• July-December 2024
• CBW Magazine

The current liberal international order is in a state of flux. Some factors contributing to the crisis are the rise of China, an intense backlash against globalisation and institutionalism, and… Continue reading Incoming Turbulence for the Biological Weapons Convention

• Siddhant Bajpai
• January-June 2022
• CBW Magazine

The ninth BWC review conference would get an opportunity to relook at the Convention in terms of its success and challenges ahead. The world is witnessing Russia-Ukraine war and China-Taiwan… Continue reading Ninth Review Meeting of Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention: Expectations and Challenges

• Anshu Joshi
• January-June 2022
• CBW Magazine

The mysterious origin of Covid-19 has given rise to many debates, allegations, denials and controversies. However, the entire history of biological threats and bio-weapons is full of such denials and… Continue reading Plausible Deniability and Proliferation of Bio-Weapons: The Elephant in the Room

• Mrinmayee Bhushan
• January-June 2022
• CBW Magazine

Biology is the most powerful designing and manufacturing technology on the planet. A new stream of science called Synthetic Biology is further revolutionising it by redesigning organisms using the power… Continue reading Managing Emerging Disruptive Threats of Synthetic Biology

• Vivek Verma , S. Kulshrestha , William Selvamurthy
• January-June 2024
• CBW Magazine

Bio terrorism is emerging more as possibility in the 21st century not only because of the changing nature of terrorism but also because of rapid growth in life sciences. These developments have been a concern for the BWC regime. In this backdrop the paper discusses the 7th Review Conference which was concluded in December 2011.

• Ajey Lele , Gunjan Singh
• Occasional Papers

It might be difficult to prove any weaponisation intent or man-made origins to the SARS-CoV-2. Yet, the mass deaths and disruption caused by the virus forebodes imminent exploitation of biological agents for political ends.

• A. Vinod Kumar
• May 12, 2020
• IDSA Comments

The Cold-War During the cold war and for ten years thereafter, the United States of America (USA) and other countries developed physical and medical countermeasures to protect their military forces… Continue reading Biological Security and Health in the Post-pandemic World: The Infectious Disease Community’s ‘Mushroom Cloud’?

• David R. Franz
• January-June 2020
• CBW Magazine

The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)1 and 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention2 (CWC) serve as the norms against the use of biological and chemical weapons, respectively. However, recent biological and chemical… Continue reading Time to Bolster Global Biological and Chemical Defense Capabilities

• Daniel M Gerstein
• January-June 2019
• CBW Magazine

In June 2018, German police arrested a Tunisian man in Cologne for trying to build a biological weapon using the deadly toxin, ricin.1   In October 2018, researchers flagged a… Continue reading Biological Weapons: The Impact of New Technologies

• Shambhavi Naik
• January-June 2019
• CBW Magazine