BIOLOGICAL THREATS IN THE 21ST CENTURY: THE POLITICS, PEOPLE, SCIENCE AND HISTORICAL ROOTS

• Editor's Introduction: Politics, People, Science & Historical Roots (Filippa Lentzos); Crossing the Normative Barrier: Japan's Biological Warfare in China in World War II (Jeanne Guillemin); Past Proliferators:The British, United States & Canadian Biological Warfare Programs (Brian Balmer & John Ellis Van Courtland Moon); Point of View: Open-Air Biowarfare Testing: American and British Experiences (Leonard A Cole); The Soviet Biological Warfare Program (Jens H Kuhn & Milton Leitenberg); Point of View: Life Inside the Soviet Bioweapons Program (Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley); The Iraqi Biological Warfare Program (Tim Trevan); Point of View: Inside Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council (Amy Smithson); Point of View: The Experience of a Bioweapons Hunter (Gabriele Kraatz-Wadsack); The South African Biological Warfare Program (Alastair Hay); Point of View: Open Secrets: 'Truth Telling' and Transitional Justice in Revealing Biowarfare Programs (Chandre Gould); Bioweapons in Today's Context:RISE, the Rajneeshees, Aum Shinrikyo & Bruce Ivins (Seth W Carus); Point of View: Inside the Mind of a Bioterrorist (Toby Ewin); Aftershocks of the 2001 Anthrax Attacks (Kathleen M Vogel); Point of View: The Threat of Misuse(Gigi Kwik Gronvall); Searching for Cures or Creating Pandemics in the Lab? (Nancy D Connell & Brian Rappert); Point of View: Dangerous Life Sciences Research (David R Franz); Ebola: From Public Health Crisis to National Security Threat (Nicholas G Evans); Point of View: Building a Sustainable Biodefense Industry (Jacob Thorup Cohn); Quandaries of Contemporary Biodefense Research (Gregory D Koblentz); Biological Disarmament and Non-Proliferation:The Traditional Tools of Biological Arms Control and Disarmament (Marie Chevrier & Alex Spelling); Witness Seminar: Origins of the Biological Weapons Convention (Jeanne Guillemin, Matthew Meselson, Julian Perry Robinson & Nicholas Sims); Interview: Unconventional Weapons and Activist Scientists (Steven Rose & Filippa Lentzos); Point of View: Responsible Science: Strategies for Engaging Key Stakeholders (Jo L Husbands); Non-Traditional Tools: Biological Cooperative Threat Reduction Activities (Ken Myers); Interview: International Security and Counter-Terrorism (Trevor Smith & Filippa Lentzos); Point of View: The Front Lines of Biological Weapons Non-Proliferation (Melissa Finley & Jen Gaudioso); Roundtable: The Future of Biothreat Governance (Iris Hunger, Jez Littlewood, Caitriona Mcleish, Piers Millett & Ralf Trapp);

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