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Unit 3Biological Weapons
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  1. 0. Introduction
  2. 1. Biological Warfare and Bioterrorism
  3. 2. The Norm against Biological Weapons
  4. 3. Scientific Advances and the Bioweapons Threat
  5. 4. Summary and Further Reading
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Biological Weapons

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Chapters

  1. 1. Introduction

  2. 2. Biological Warfare and Bioterrorism

  3. 3. The Norm against Biological Weapons

  4. 4. Scientific Advances and the Bioweapons Threat

  5. 5. Summary and Further Reading

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    Filippa Lentzos

    King's College London

    Dr Filippa Lentzos is Reader (Associate Professor) in Science & International Security at King’s College London, where she is jointly appointed in the Department of War Studies and the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine. She is also an Associate Senior Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), and a Non-Resident Scholar at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS). She chairs the WHO Technical Advisory Group on the responsible use of the life sciences and dual-use research (WHO RULS DUR), and she is a member of the WHO Health Security Interface – Technical Advisory Group (WHO HSI-TAG). She is a rostered expert for the UN Secretary-General’s Mechanism for Investigation of Alleged Use of Chemical or Biological Weapons (UNSGM), and she serves as the NGO Coordinator for the Biological Weapons Convention. She is also a member of the UK Biosecurity Leadership Council. For more about her work, see: filippalentzos.com or follow her on Twitter @FilippaLentzos.

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Filippa Lentzos, "Biological Weapons" in EUNPDC eLearning, ed. Niklas Schörnig, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Available at https://eunpdc-elearning.netlify.app/lu-03/, last modified 23 September 2024

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