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24 Nov, 6 tweets, 3 min read
🚨New RUSI paper, ‘Small-Scale Chemical and Biological Production: Current Threats and Future Trajectories’ by @DanKaszeta is out now!

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The report reveals how developments in science and technology will simplify efforts by hostile actors to operate small-scale chemical and #biologicalweapons production.
General emphasis in arms control and non-proliferation debates has focused on the threat of chemical & biological materials as weapons of warfare, but the threat of such materials being used in situations other than war, such as #terrorist attacks & assassinations, is now clear.
The report notes that ‘without an understanding of where the small-scale production risks might lie, both now and in the future, it will not be possible to develop the necessary tools and policy responses to manage them.’
The report concludes by proposing six policy recommendations for policymakers.
Read the report on our website now.
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16 Nov
To mark #InternationalFraudAwareness week, we are sharing some of our recent work that looks at the impact of fraud, and how far reaching its effects can be.
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A recent collection of analysis on #Belarus and the #BelarusProtest in the last few weeks (THREAD) -
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5 Mar 20
1. A new report by RUSI shows that North Korea is breaking the @UN sanctions that target its nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programmes on an industrial scale. And they are doing it in Chinese waters too.
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9 Jul 18
We will be live tweeting the presentations from @MChalmers_RUSI, Professor John Louth and Professor Peter Roberts debating the Modernising Defence Programme. Thread below.
@MChalmers_RUSI at @RUSI_org: If we have learnt no other lesson from MDP, it’s that you should not start a defence review without a viable exit strategy - a credible means of bringing it to an end
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