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Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 (USA)

The BWATA extended the scope of bio-warfare materials regulation to include private individuals and non-state organizations. Drafted by Francis Boyle. Loophole: Sec. 2(b) has a “peaceful purposes” clause. SEC. 2. PURPOSE AND INTENT. (a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this Act is to— (1) implement the Biological Weapons Convention, an international agreement unanimously ratified by the United…

Dr. D.A. Henderson founds the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

1998 [The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security] was founded in 1998 by [Donald] A. Henderson as the first nongovernment organization to study the vulnerability of the US civilian population to biological weapons and how to prevent, prepare, and respond to their consequences. Dr. Henderson served as Editor Emeritus of the peer-reviewed journal Health Security (formerly Biosecurity and…

Dark Winter exercise held at Andrews Air Force Base

In an elaborate exercise reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 nuclear annihilation film Dr. Strangelove, a consortium of non-profit institutions on June 22-23 at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., hosted “Dark Winter,” in which the United States falls prey to a smallpox attack sometime during the winter of 2002. The sponsoring organizations included the Center for Strategic and…

Secretary of Defense mandates COVID-19 vaccines for military by mid-September

As of August 23, 2021, the Pfizer-BioNTech inoculation is now approved under the brand name Comirnaty. The Comirnaty/Pfizer-BioNTech Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers Administering Vaccine clearly states that pre-authorization Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Comirnaty vaccine are equivalent. Any objections based on the experimental status of this vaccine are now moot. The argument now becomes whether…