Brig Vivek Verma Writes :CIA report on “The Darker Bioweapons Futures” talked about the diverse and elusive threat spectrum created due to rapid biotechnology development. It warned about the diversity of new biological agents creating broad range of attack scenarios, and that it would be virtually impossible to anticipate and defend against them
AN ASSESSMENT OF CHINA’S BIOLOGICAL WARFARE CAPABILITIES AND NEED FOR GLOBAL APPROACH TO BIO-SECURITY
Brig Vivek Verma Writes :Biological weapons are made of microorganisms or natural toxins to produce disease in humans, animals or plants. To act as a weapon, pathogens need a means for transmission. China has conducted considerable amount of defensive research in tularaemia, Q fever, plague, anthrax etc.
SOFT-SKILLS FOR ENFORCING A PROLONGED COVID LOCKDOWN
Shri Jayanto Narayan Choudhury, IPS (Retd) Writes: It still seems more fiction than fact: a near apocalypse caused not by a nuclear winter in the aftermath of a showdown between superpowers, but by a ‘pseudo-organism’. As scientists race to find a vaccine and accurate diagnostic tests, the global economy is on its knees; the world’s mightiest nations are powerless in this asymmetric contest with a sub-microscopic adversary that has spread across continents faster than any wildfire.
CHINA AND NORTH KOREA’S NUCLEAR AND MISSILE TESTS AND IMPACT OF KIM JONG-UN’S ILLNESS
Report prepared by Ms Aastha Gupta, Research Intern Speaker: Dr Roshan Khanijo, Assistant Director, CS3 Moderator: Maj Gen Rajiv Narayanan, AVSM, VSM (Retd), Head CS3 Nuclear weapons have a significant role […]
EMERGING INTERNAL DYNAMICS IN CHINA DUE TO COVID – 19 HANDLING BY THE CCP
Report prepared by Ms Naireen Khan, Research Intern USI of India Speaker: Brig. Vivek Verma Moderator: Maj Gen Rajiv Narayanan, AVSM, VSM (Retd), Head CS3 The Centre for Strategic Studies and […]
COVID-19 ADDED NEW DIMENSION TO ONGOING ‘UNDECLARED THIRD WORLD WAR’
IMaj Gen SB Asthana, SM, VSM (Retd) Writes : In a global tug of war, COVID-19 has added a new dimension to alter the global strategic balance and triggered another chain of event for global strategic dominance, besides unprecedented human sufferings.