ORF & Global Policy Journal Article - Gene Editing and the Need to Reevaluate Bioweapons
In this article, Shambhavi Naik assesses an important technology — biotechnology — in the context of changing warfare. She provides both tactical and strategic implications of biotechnology and biowarfare in future warfare. While bioweapons have been considered a weapon of mass destruction, the global community has shunned these weapons. But the emergence of new technologies and a fractured international political situation have pushed for the development of “targetable bioweapons” that may be developed and “used without attribution”. Such a scenario, she argues, calls for a review of existing international mechanisms such as the Biological Weapons Convention.