{"70020":{"#nid":"70020","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Kosal on Biological Weapons Verification in the 21st Century","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\nAs part of the BioWeapons Prevention Project (BWPP)\u0027s RevCon Project, INTA Assistant Professor Margaret E. Kosal was invited to contribute to a series of invited online discussions on issues related to the 7th Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Review Conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHer commentary on \u0022The role of biological verification as part of 21st century international security strategy\u0022 was published last week (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bwpp.org\/revcon-verification.html\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.bwpp.org\/revcon-verification.html\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.bwpp.org\/revcon-verification.html\u003C\/a\u003E). In the article, she explores the role (and limitations) of biological weapons verification, particularly in context of the UN-backed UNSCOM and UNMOVIC verification missions to Iraq following the first Gulf War and the relationship of those efforts to the decision to invade Iraq in March 2003. The relationship of biological verification to broader strategic postures, such as deterrence, is also considered.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKosal writes \u0022during the time UNSCOM and UNMOVIC were operating in Iraq there was no evidence of new biological weapons research or development. At the same time, the limits of monitoring and onsite verification were substantive and significant enough in the minds of people inside and outside of political institutions \u00e2\u0080\u0022 on both sides of the Atlantic \u00e2\u0080\u0022 to generate doubt and uncertainty. The US and those allies who supported Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) hedged on the side on uncertainty. If one wants verification to be strategically significant a priori rather than post-invasion, resolving those uncertainties and making them significant for the broader strategic context must be achieved.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs part of the BioWeapons Prevention Project (BWPP)\u0027s RevCon Project, INTA Assistant Professor Margaret E. Kosal was invited to contribute to a series of invited online discussions on issues related to the 7th Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Review Conference.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Discussions at 7th Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference"}],"uid":"27184","created_gmt":"2011-09-15 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:09","author":"Jene Gladstone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-09-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-09-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"70022":{"id":"70022","type":"image","title":"Kosal on Biological Weapons Verification in the 21","body":null,"created":"1449177288","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:14:48","changed":"1475894614","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:34"}},"media_ids":["70022"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.bwpp.org\/revcon-verification.html","title":"BioWeapons Prevention Project"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cistp.gatech.edu\/people\/profile.html?name=Margaret.Kosal","title":"Prof Kosal\u0027s Bio"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"9657","name":"Biological weapons"},{"id":"1503","name":"Biotechnology"},{"id":"1001","name":"bioterrorism"},{"id":"14293","name":"BioWeapons Prevention Project"},{"id":"13104","name":"BWC"},{"id":"11415","name":"chemical weapons"},{"id":"795","name":"CISTP"},{"id":"11417","name":"cognitive science"},{"id":"9636","name":"Counterinsurgency"},{"id":"11414","name":"emerging technology"},{"id":"999","name":"IAC"},{"id":"851","name":"INTA"},{"id":"3763","name":"international security"},{"id":"922","name":"Kosal"},{"id":"11687","name":"Margaret E. 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