#ArtificialIntelligence #Warfare AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying A major long-read from @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma... [...] Eight years ago, Maven was the most contested project in Silicon Valley. In 2018, more than ...

#ChemicalWeapons #Threat #War #USA #Iran US troops drill on deck for contamination warfare in Iran www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20... @lenniep.bsky.social [...] The Tehran regime is also understood to have a number of chemical weapons that it took from Syria before the fall ...

#BiologicalWeapons #Biosecurity #China #USA #Investigation She uncovered a terrifying lab hidden in California, with alleged ties to China www.latimes.com/california/s... [...] Nearly a month after the search, it’s still not clear what was inside the Las Vegas home and what the plan was for ...

#BiologicalWeapons #BioSecurity #CyberSecurity #Governance What can biosecurity learn from cybersecurity? A lot. thebulletin.org/2026/03/what... [...] Yet biosecurity measures meant to prevent or mitigate human-made biological risks remain largely anchored in conceptual frameworks inherited ...

#ChemicalWeapons #IncendiaryWeapons #WhitePhosphorus #Israel #Iran Iran strikes Israeli chemical complex linked to white phosphorus production thecradle.co/articles/ira... An Iranian ballistic missile made direct impact at the ICL Rotem chemical complex in the Negev on 25 March, causing ...

#ChemicalWeapons #BiologicalWeapons #Threat #Iran #War #USA #Israelis Does Iran have a non-conventional strategic weapon option beyond nukes? warsight.com/2026/03/24/i... @dankaszeta.bsky.social With the US and Israeli military actively degrading the Iranian nuclear weapon programme, it would ...

#ChemicalWeapons #Use #Sudan America Must Confront Sudan’s Chemical Weapons Program nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/am... In its ongoing civil war against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) under dictator Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has repeatedly deployed ...

#ChemicalWeapons #BiologicalWeapons #Threat #USA The Annual Threat Assessment Report on #WMD almauroni.substack.com/p/the-annual... [...] (Start quote) Most states with CBW programs have developed these weapons for tactical use such as targeted killings, special military operations, and CT or ...

#ChemicalWeapons #IncendiaryWeapons #WhitePhosphorus #Israel #Lebanon Israel used white phosphorus to scorch earth in south Lebanon, researcher says www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... [...] White phosphorus is a chemical substance dispersed in artillery shells, bombs and rockets that ...

#Biosecurity #Brazil #Theft #Trial Teacher who stole virus has patent for immunomodulatory particles www.cnnbrasil.com.br/nacional/sud... [Autotranslated from Portuguese] Professor Soledad Palameta Miller, from Unicamp (University of Campinas), arrested red-handed by the Federal Police on ...

#HybridOperations #Russia #Europe #TrainingCamp $500 and a trip abroad: How recruits end up in Russian sabotage training camps www.politico.eu/article/russ... [...] Moldovan prosecutors are investigating more than 80 people over suspicions they fomented mass disorder. Twenty have been formally ...

#ChemicalWeapons #Training #Uganda #Africa #OPCW Uganda Hosts Africa Region Training to Prevent Illicit Chemical Transfers nilepost.co.ug/index.php/ne... [...] Speaking during the function, the Minister of State for Labour, Employment & Industrial Relations, Esther Anyakun, who was represented ...

#ChemicalWeapons #WW2 #Use #Japan #China Hiroshima and Tadanoumi: The unknown history of Japan's 'wartime capital' and 'Poison Gas Island' en.people.cn/n3/2026/0305... [...] Okunoshima is a remote island 80 kilometers away from Hiroshima. In November 1928, the Japanese Imperial Army established...

#ChemicalWeapons #Syria #Sanctions #WarCrime A Door Left Ajar: How Washington Reopened the World to Syria’s Weapons Engineers syrianobserver.com/foreign-acto... The recent American decision to lift sanctions on 266 employees of the Scientific Studies and Research Center, an institution once ...

#ChemicalWepons #Russia #UkraineRussiaWar Ukrainian Drones Hit Russian Chemical Weapons Workshop in Occupied Avdiivka united24media.com/latest-news/... Ukrainian unmanned aerial systems targeted a Russian-operated facility reportedly used to manufacture chemical munitions in the occupied city ...

#ChemicalWeapons #ArtificialIntelligence #GenevaProtocol Now this is interesting: I asked #Google whether Russia participated in the negotiations for the 1925 Geneva Protocol banning the use of CBW. * It answered "yes" (the correct answer is "no"). * It doubles down by saying that Russia was ...

#Poison #Misinformation #UK #WW1 #WW2 #ArtificialIntelligence Using your AI chatbot as a search engine? Be careful what you believe theconversation.com/using-your-a... During the first world war, the British government was looking for ways to help people stretch their limited food supplies. It ...

#BiologicalWeapons #WW2 #Unit731 #Japan #China Interview: Japanese scholar emphasizes clarifying truth of history to prevent return of Japanese militarism english.news.cn/20260319/44a... Seiya Matsuno has spent many years studying modern Japanese history and the darkest chapters within it. A ...

#ChemicalWeapons #Terrorism #AumShinrikyo #Japan #Commemoration Survivors, relatives mark 31 years since sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway japantoday.com/category/cri... [...] In a recent survey by a support group targeting 323 people affected by the attack, 26 percent of survivors and ...

#LifeSciences #Biotechnology Why #Students Are Choosing Biotechnology Over Life Sciences shooliniuniversity.com/blog/why-stu... Biology as a field has changed dramatically over the last decade. It is no longer limited to understanding plants, animals, or cells in isolation. Today, biology is ...

#PublicHealth #Vaccines #TragedyOfTheCommons The Vaccine Debate Must Include Discussions Of ‘The Common Good’ ctnewsjunkie.com/2026/03/20/o... [...] The current vaccine debates – whether involving measles, COVID or, heaven forbid, polio – recall Garret Hardin’s “Tragedy of the Commons.” In a ...

#Archaeology #AncientGreece #Poison Can Geology Explain the Deadly Reputation of the Styx River and Shed Light on the Death of Alexander the Great? @amayor.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... [ #OpenSource - PDF available] Abstract Modern discoveries of two naturally occurring toxins...

#PublicHealth #Argentina #WorldHealthOrganization Argentina formally exits WHO, following US withdrawal earlier this year www.msn.com/en-in/health... Argentina has formally withdrawn from the World Health Organization (WHO), its foreign minister announced on Tuesday, becoming the latest ...

#Antiquity #DelphiOracle #AncientGreece #Hallucinogens #Archaeology #Geology Ancient Greece’s most famous oracle was just high on gas fumes www.popsci.com/science/orac... [...] Spiller found many parallels between the altered state of mind produced by ethylene inhalation and ancient accounts ...

#ChemicalWeapons #Training #Protection #Australia Training to survive a chemical weapon attack www.defence.gov.au/news-events/... It’s a situation no soldier ever wants to find themselves in – having to deliver urgent, lifesaving care to seriously wounded colleagues in the immediate aftermath

#ChemicalWeapons #Hungary #TruthSerum #Ukraine Hungary officials ‘gave Ukrainian forced injection’ after raid on bank vehicles www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... [...] The sources added that they believed the injection contained a relaxant that was meant to predispose subjects towards becoming...

#BiologicalWeapons #DualUse #Governance From Satellites to Synthetic Biology: The Dual-Use Dilemma www.orfonline.org/research/fro... [...] Advancements in fields such as AI, additive manufacturing, biotechnology, cyber technologies, and advanced communication systems have altered the dual-use ...

#BiologicalWeapons #Biosecurity #Research #Governance Measures to strengthen international biosafety and biosecurity practices journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... [ #OpenSource - PDF available] [...] Determining the appropriate biorisk management strategy requires an evaluation of risk to ...

#ChemicalWeapons #Syria #Disarmament #USA #Sanctions @gregkoblentz.bsky.social Why Did the United States Lift Sanctions on Assad’s Chemical Weapons Scientists? warontherocks.com/2026/03/why-... On June 30, 2025, as part of the process of normalizing relations with Damascus ...

#BiologicalWeapons #Proliferation #Prevention @sipri.org Preventing Biological Weapons Proliferation: Operational Applications of Emerging Technologies www.sipri.org/publications... Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and distributed ledger technology (DLT) are reshaping how biological ...

#BiologicalWeapons #ArtificialIntelligence #Threat (or not) #Governance Reasons to be pessimistic (and optimistic) on the future of biosecurity www.owlposting.com/p/reasons-to... [...] Yet, I still believe it is still hard to actually turn all this into something evil. And no, I do not think ...

#BiologicalWeapons #1972BWC #Disarmament Behavioral arms control in the century of biology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... [ #OpenSource - PDF available]

#BiologicalWeapons #1972BWC #CBMs Gaps in transparency: understanding limited participation in confidence-building measures under the Biological Weapons Convention www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... [ #OpenSource - PDF available]

#Palaeoarchaeology #Neanderthal #Medicine Neanderthals may have used birch tar for its anti-bacterial properties, experiments suggest phys.org/news/2026-03... [...] Neanderthals also employed a variety of medical practices. To investigate the medicinal potential of birch tar, Siemssen and ...

#ChemicalWeapons #Syria #Disarmament #OPCW #Turkey Türkiye joins task force to destroy Assad regime's chemical weapons in Syria en.yenisafak.com/world/turkiy... [...] In addition to Türkiye and Syria, task force members include Qatar, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, ...

#ChemicalWeapons #Syria #Disarmament #OPCW #Turkey Türkiye to help Syria eliminate Assad regime’s chemical weapons www.dailysabah.com/politics/tur... [...] Türkiye has also been carrying out humanitarian demining activities in various parts of Syria, contributing to the disposal of unexploded ...

#ChemicalWeapons #Syria #Disarmament #OPCW Syria unveils plan to eliminate Assad's chemical weapons www.reuters.com/world/americ... [...] An international taskforce backed by the United States, ⁠Germany, Britain, Canada and France, among others, will track down all remaining elements of the ...

#UnitedNations #CivilSociety #ECOSOC A UN Committee Election Could Worsen Civil Society Access to the World Body @passblue.bsky.social passblue.com/2026/03/18/a... Far from headlines, the United Nations Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations has the power of picking which civil society ...

#ChemicalWeapons #AcidAttack #Indonesia #HumanRights Indonesia detains four soldiers over acid attack on activist www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Indonesian authorities have detained four soldiers for their alleged role in an acid attack on an activist who criticised the military's influence ...

#Covid19 #Pandemic #USA #Statistics #ArtificialIntelligence Applying machine learning to identify unrecognized COVID-19 deaths recorded as other causes of death in the United States www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... [ #OpenSource - PDF available] Abstract The actual number of US deaths ...

#BiologicalWeapons #HybridWarfare #Biosecurity #China #USA Two Illegal Biolabs Reveal Gaps in U.S. Biosecurity www.lawfaremedia.org/article/two-... Last month, law enforcement officials launched an investigation into a suspected biolab in the Las Vegas home of Chinese national Zhu Jia Bei. Two...

#BiologicalWeapons #Threat #USA #Deterrence #Biotechnology Biodeterrence in an Era of Convergent Threats inss.ndu.edu/news/Article... [...] As noted in both the document and the symposium, advancements in synthetic biology, gene editing, high-throughput genomic sequencing, neuroscience ...

#BiologicalWeapons #Canada #WW2 New book (in French): Le Projet N: Grosse-Île, l'arme secrète de la Seconde Guerre mondiale www.septentrion.qc.ca/catalogue/le...

#BiologicalWeapons #Toxins #Ricin #Germany #Trial Jugendliche Experimente mit Sprengstoff und biologischen Waffen führen zu Sozialstunden www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/17-jaeh... [From German] [...] The prosecution saw no evidence that the young man had intended to harm or injure anyone. Rather,...

#BiologicalWeapons #Smallpox #War #USA #Inocculation Excerpt: How George Washington Weaponized Smallpox Inoculation undark.org/2026/03/13/e... [...] Washington knew smallpox well. The colonies had experienced some outbreaks, but they had not been as large or as frequent as those that had ...

#ChemicalWeapons #Kurds #Halabja #Commemmoration Halabja Massacre still haunts the Kurdish people after nearly four decades ilkha.com/english/worl... [...] Perhaps most damning than the attack itself was the world's response—or lack thereof. The United Nations dispatched a medical team ...

#ChemicalWeapons #Kurds #Halabja #Commemmoration Discover Iraq: Halabja- Where land, memory, and resilience intertwine shafaq.com/amp/en/Repor... [...] Halabja’s name is indelibly tied to the chemical attack it suffered on March 16, 1988. In less than five hours, Iraqi warplanes under ...

#ChemicalWeapons #RiotControl #Georgia #Camite #OPCW #Justice “Opposition Alliance”: We are starting active communication with France so that an investigation is launched against Bidzina Ivanishvili www.interpressnews.ge/en/article/1... [...] Second, there is the Organisation for the ...

#ChemicalWeapons #BiologicalWeapons #ArtificialIntelligence #Government #RiskManagement AI companies are hiring chemical weapons experts for safety — while embedded in military systems siliconcanals.com/sc-w-ai-comp... [...] On the surface, this looks like responsible corporate behaviour: ...

#CBRN #InternationalLaw #Islam #Fatwa What Happens to Khamenei’s Nuclear Fatwa After His Death? iranwire.com/en/features/... [...] A fatwa is tied to the authority of the religious jurist, and its continuation depends on individual emulation. Since the authority of the Marja’ ends with ...