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Forget Guerrillas and IEDs - The Next Asymmetric War Will Be Engineered

OPINION — For most of modern history, asymmetric conflict conjured a familiar image: guerrillas in the hills, insurgents planting roadside bombs, or [...] More

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The Threat from Biological Weapons

Today, interest in the development of biological weapons is the mark of a desperate pariah state or terrorist group. International efforts have led [...] More

The Security Impact of Biotech

There is increasingly rapid progress in understanding how biological systems work. This gives us new tools to meaningfully manipulate those systems [...] More

Biotechnology’s Dark Side

Biotechnology’s Dark Side

Right now, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) at the Pentagon is trying to figure out how to create artificial life forms and [...] More