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This report evaluates the pandemic threat posed by H5N1 avian virus.

Authored by Theodor Rosebury, the author of Experimental Air-Borne Infection. The purpose of the work is to inform the public about biological warfare in the face of a lack of government transparency.

2009 Perceived Threat, Risk Perception, and Efficacy Beliefs Related to SARS and Other (Emerging) Infectious Diseases_ Results of an International Survey.pdf
A phone survey was conducted that asked respondents their perceived threat of SARs and 8 other diseases.

1942 Plan For A 3-Way Attack By Biological Agents on the Sugar Beet Crop of Axis Nations in Europe in 1943.pdf
Contextualizes drop diseases as potential biological weapons based on recent history of blights. Reviews three crop diseases that show promise for deployment against European adversaries. Discusses practical and technical procedures that could be…

1961 Plans for the Development of Biological and Chemical Weapons and Defense Capabilities.pdf
This aims to provide short and intermediate term DOD plans for use by the DOD of the present B-C weapons and defense capabilities. It also aims to create a research and development plan for execution by the Army.

This report summarizes a public symposium ran by the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine which discussed the potential benefits and risks of gain-of-function research.

1947 Present Position of Bacteriological Warfare - A Brief Review.pdf
A review of biological warfare capabilities, promising agents, countermeasures, and military utility by Canadian authorities. Based heavily on collaborations with the UK and US.

2009 Prevention of Biothreats_ A Look Ahead.pdf
This is a summary report of a conference at the Center of Biosecurity of UPMC to discuss strategies for countering biowarfare threats.

1944 Probable Biological Agents Which May Be Employed by the Enemy.pdf
This summarizes some of the scientific research on possible biological agents conducted by the War Research Service.

1961 Problems of Antibacteriological Defense According to Data From Foreign Literature.pdf
This book written by a Soviet author provides a generalization of the information that has been published worldwide about the problem of the bacteriological weapon and the existing defense measures against it, in order to inform medical workers and…

1949 Program for Protection of Livestock and Poultry.pdf
The working group appointed by the NME-USDA Conference on Livestock Protection drafted a program intended to protect livestock and poultry. They take a look at some of the most critical animal diseases at the time and offer suggestions to better…

1941 Progress Report No. 54_ Biological and Bacteriological Warfare.pdf
Describes the purposes of the CWS's bacteriological warfare research activities. Refers back to the 1933 document by L.A. Fox for summary of these activities.

1952 Progress Report on _R_ Work at GIES.pdf
Short progress report on vaccines and infection studies with "R", presumably rinderpest, by the Canadians.

1944 Progress Report on _X_ Toxoid.pdf
This is a report on the Surgeon Generals views on the deployment of "X" toxoid to American troops after the Director General of the Canadian Medical services recommended it for their own.

1961 Project 112 - Evaluation of B-C Weapons.pdf
A series of memos that catalog results from a Working Group led by the Director of Defense Research and Engineering. Goals were to evaluate the biological and chemical weapons state of the art. Army, Navy, and Air Force participated and were tasked…

1993 Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Assessing the Risks.pdf
Office of Technology Assessment created a report describing what CBRN can do, analyzing consequences of spread to the US, summarizing technical aspects of monitoring/controlling production

Research paper presented to the Directorate of Research Air Command and Staff College.

2022 Proposed Biosecurity Oversight Framework for the Future of Science.pdf
US government charged NSABB with "evaluating and providing recommendations on the effectiveness of two major US biosecurity policy frameworks governing" research with enhanced potential pandemic pathogens (ePPP) and dual use research of concern.

2007 Proposed Framework for the Oversight of Dual-use Life Sciences Research_ Strategies for Minimizing the Potential Misuse of Research Information.pdf
Discusses considerations for institutional evaluation of the dual-use risk of proposed research.

1944 Protection Against Bacteriological Warfare.pdf
This memo for the Chief of Staff discusses measures to prepare US troops for biological warfare.
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