Cartoon #1: Preventing Biological Weapons
Strengthening the chemical and biological weapons conventions has been difficult to achieve during the last two decades, but there may be the opportunity to achieve progress after the COVID-19 pandemic because there is bound to be a reassessment of the dangers of natural, accidental and deliberate diseases. This must include finding ways to minimise the possibility that the beneficial advances being made in the life sciences are not used by States, sub-State groups, or even individuals, for hostile purposes.