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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

    Filippa Lentzos, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine at King’s College London. She originally trained in human sciences before switching to sociology, and spent the first ten years of her career at the London School of Economics and Political Science, before joining King’s in 2012. Lentzos specializes in the security and governance of emerging technologies in the life sciences susceptible to misuse, including synthetic biology, genome editing and potentially pandemic pathogens. Her most recent book, Biological Threats in the 21st Century, was published by Imperial College Press in 2016.

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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 11 March 2024

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