Biology and Security

Event Ideas

The following is a list of resources that may be used for chapter meetings and events. Ideas range from book clubs to movie nights and from roundtable discussions to large events.

Movies

• NOVA: Bioterror
  

• Avoiding Armageddon, episode 1. "Silent Killers: Poisons and Plagues"
  

• Mission Impossible II
  

• Outbreak
  

Suggested Speaker

• Susan Wright
  University of Michigan
  

• Douglas Brown
  Deputy Director
  Chemical and Biological Controls Division
  Office of Nonproliferation Controls and Treaty Compliance
  US Department of Commerce
  

• Mary Groesch
  Senior Advisor for Science Policy
  Office of Biotechnology Activities
  National Institutes of Health
  

• Stephanie Loranger
  Biology Issues Director
  Federation of American Scientists
  

• Marie Chevrier
  University of Texas, Dallas
  

• Robert Mikulak
  Director
  Office of Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions
  US Department of State
  

• Gerald Epstein
  Senior Fellow, Science and Security
  Center for Strategic and International Studies
  

• Alan Pearson
  Department of Homeland Security
  

• Elin Gursky
  Senior Fellow for Biodefense
  ANSER (Analytic Services)
  

• Charles Schable
  Director, Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Program
  Associate Director for Emergency Response and Preparedness
  National Center for Infectious Diseases
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  

• Bruce Gellin
  Director
  National Vaccine Program
  Department of Health and Human Services
  

• Col. John Grabenstein
  Deputy Director for Clinical Operations
  US Army Medical Command
  

• Meryl Nass, M.D.
  MDI Hospital
  

• Victor Sidel
  Distinguished University Professor of Social Medicine
  Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  

• Leslie Z. Benet
  Professor of Biopharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
  University of California, San Francisco
  

• Jonathan Tucker
  Senior Researcher
  Monterey Institute of International Studies
  

• Margaret Hamburg
  Vice President for Biological Programs
  The Nuclear Threat Initiative
  

• Col. Renata Engler
  Medical Director, National Vaccine Healthcare Center
  Walter Reed Army Medical Center
  

• Jessica Stern
  Harvard University
  

• Rocco Casagrande
  Director, Homeland Defense Program
  Abt Associates
  

• Randi Airola
  Executive Director
  Military Vaccine Education Center
  

• Jenni Rissanen
  Analyst
  The Acronym Institute
  

Websites

• Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program
  http://www.anthrax.osd.mil/
  
• Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention Website
  http://www.opbw.org/
  
• National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity
  http://www.biosecurityboard.gov/
  
• Center for Disease Control's Emergency Preparedness & Response
  http://www.bt.cdc.gov/
  
• Henry L. Stimson Center: Chemical and Biological Weapons Non-proliferation Project
  http://www.stimson.org/cbw/
  
  

Books and Publications

• Biological Warfare and Disarmament
  edited by Susan Wright
  

• Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War
  by William Broad, Judith Miller, and Stephen Engelberg
  

• Biohazard
  by Stephen Handelman and Ken Alibek
  

• Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen
  by Eric Croddy, Clarisa Perez-Armendariz, and John Hart
  
  

Articles

• "The Protean Enemy" by Jessica Stern (Foreign Affairs , July/August 2003)
  

• "Biological Weapons and bioterrorism in the first years of the twenty-first century" by Milton Leitenberg (Politics and the Life Sciences 21(2) (September 2002), 3-27)
  

• "Biodefense Crossing the Line," by Milton Leitenberg, James Leonard, and Richard Spertzel (Politics and the Life Sciences 22(2) (2004), 1-2)
  

• "The Growing Threat of Biological Weapons," by Steven Block (American Scientist 89(1) (Jan./Feb. 2001))
  

• "Disaster in the Making," by Rachel Novak (New Scientist (13 January 2001))
  

• "US Develops Lethal New Viruses," by Debora MacKenzie (New Scientist (29 October 2003))
  

• "Balancing Scientific Publication and National Security Concerns: Issues for Congress" by Dana Shea (Library of Congress, 10 January 2003)
  

• National Research Council of the National Academies, Committee on Research Standards and Practices to Prevent the Destructive Application of Biotechnology, Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism: Confronting the "Dual Use" Dilemma (2003)
  

• Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction
  

• Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction
  

• Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), Document INFCIRC/140
  

• Model Protocol Additional to the Agreement(s) Between State(s) and the Agency for the Application of Safeguards, Document INFCIRC/540(Corrected) [1. English]
  

• "The Threat of Smallpox: Eradicated But Not Erased," by Holly Myers, Elin Gursky, Georges Benjamin, Christopher Gozdor, and Michael Greenberger (Journal of Homeland Security, February 2004)
  

• "Anthrax 2001: Observations on the Medical and Public Health Response" by Elin Gursky, Thomas V. Inglesby, and Tara O'Toole (Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2003) [SCROLL TO BOTTOM OF PAGE FOR PDF LINK]
  

• " Some Things Old, Some Things New: Public Health at a Crossroads" by Elin Gursky, Sc.D. (ANSER Institute for Homeland Security Commentary, 13 February 2004) [SCROLL TO BOTTOM OF PAGE FOR PDF LINK]
  

• " National Academies of Science Report: Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism: Confronting the 'Dual Use' Dilemma" (2003)
  

• "Science Groups Protest Researcher's Treatment" by Ceci Connolly (The Washington Post, August 28, 2003)
  

• "Constitutional Problems with Enforcing the Biological Weapons Convention" by Ronald D. Rotunda (The Cato Institute, Foreign Policy Briefing #61, September 28, 2000.
  

• "DoD and the Anthrax Vaccine Debacle" by Russel E. Dingle and Thomas L. Rempfer (The Power Hour)
  

• "U.S. Creates Advisory Board for Biosecurity" Kerry Boyd-Anderson (Arms Control Today, April 2004)
  

• "Bioshield Outlined" by Ted Agres (The Scientist, February 4, 2003)
  

• Interview with D.A. Henderson by Deborah MacKenzie (New Scientist)
  

• "At the Center of the Storm Over Bush and Science" by James Glanz (The New York Times, March 30, 2004)
  

• "Growing Doubts on Vaccine in Military" by Marilyn W. Thompson (The Washington Post, March 27, 2004)
  

• "Censored Study on Bioterrorism Doubts US Preparedness" by Judith Miller (The New York Times, March 29, 2004)
  

• BBC News: Q&A Germ Warfare
  

• Microbiology 101: Overview of Biological Weapons
  

• "Considering the Unthinkable: Is the US Ready to Handle Widespread Biological or Chemical Attacks?" ABC News Interview by Amanda Onion, Jeffrey Carpenter and Andrew Giese
  

• Frequently asked questions regarding the deliberate use of biological agents and chemicals as weapons (The World Health Organization)
  

• "The Basics of ChemBio Weapons Detectors," Margaret E. Kosal (The Monterey Institute of International Studies, November 24, 2003)
  

• "Chemical and Biological Weapons: Possession and Programs Past and Present" (The Monterey Institute of International Studies)
  

• "Chronology of State Use and Biological and Chemical Weapons Control" (The Monterey Institute of International Studies)
  

• "How Biological and Chemical Warfare Works" (HowStuffWorks.com)
  

• Centers for Disease Control: Index of Bioterrorism agents and diseases
  

• Summary of Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002
  

• National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity
  
  *Hard copies of many of these articles are available from the national office. If you are interested, please e-mail spusa@spusa.org