What role should international agreements play in regulating the spread of dual-use biotechnologies?
The 1925 Geneva Protocol, the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) are central to a “web of prevention.” When these international agreements are strong, universal, and deeply embedded by all states parties, we will be in a much better position. Of course, the web would include carefully constructed export control systems directed where necessary to restrict the possibility of misuse–for instance, not allowing easy access to dangerous organisms and genomes.
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