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Strengthening Security And Oversight At Biological Research Laboratories, Michael Greenberger Dec 2009

Strengthening Security And Oversight At Biological Research Laboratories, Michael Greenberger

Michael Greenberger

With the advent of the Anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001, this Nation has been confronted with a serious policy conundrum. On the one hand, we have strengthened programs that encourage the use of our best scientific resources to develop countermeasures to the weaponization of highly dangerous biopathogens. On the other hand, research on those countermeasures requires the use of the very biopathogens we seek to defeat. There have been many mishaps in the handling of those pathogens, which raises the frightening prospect that the research may be as (or more) dangerous than the potential bioterrorist acts themselves. Indeed, …


Strategic Foresight: Anticipation And Capacity To Act, Beat Habegger Dec 2008

Strategic Foresight: Anticipation And Capacity To Act, Beat Habegger

Beat Habegger

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Risiko- Und Verwundbarkeitsanalyse In Der Bundespolitik: Erfahrungen Und Perspektiven, Beat Habegger, Sergio Bonin Dec 2008

Risiko- Und Verwundbarkeitsanalyse In Der Bundespolitik: Erfahrungen Und Perspektiven, Beat Habegger, Sergio Bonin

Beat Habegger

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