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Finding the best ways to do good. The Covid-19 pandemic is still a threat. The virus is currently walloping India, Brazil, and other countries, and new waves could yet erupt in places where the pandemic had been suppressed. But the devastation of the past year has come with one big silver lining: a massive leap forward in vaccine development. The Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, and AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines were made possible by recent innovations in vaccine platform technology. Vaccines, which generally required the use of dead or inactive viruses, used to take years to ...

The Cipher Daily Brief Get a daily rundown of the top security stories delivered to your inbox Monday through Friday with exclusive briefs and columns on what matters most to you and your organization. SIGN UP FOR The Free NewsletterSign up How to Integrate Climate in Future National Security May 4, 2021 The Newsletter As part of a special series on climate in partnership with The Intelligence Project at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and Cipher Brief Expert Kristin Wood, The Cipher Brief is focusing on the national security implications of climat...

Posted by Scott Lucas | May 1, 2021 | A medic treats a young victim after a chemical attack on Latamineh in northwest Syria, March 2018 Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü, the Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons from 2010 to 2018, writes for the Council on Strategic Risks: I watched a few days ago, via webcast, the proceedings of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Conference of States Parties held in The Hague. The main issue was, again, the use of chemical weapons in Syria. The CSP adopted a draft decision, submitted by western countrie...

The Cipher Daily Brief Get a daily rundown of the top security stories delivered to your inbox Monday through Friday with exclusive briefs and columns on what matters most to you and your organization. SIGN UP FOR The Free NewsletterSign up The Link Between National Security and Climate Change in Asia April 21, 2021 The Newsletter The White House is preparing to launch a Leaders Summit on Climate hosted by President Joe Biden beginning Thursday. 40 World leaders were invited to participate in the two-day series of conversations on climate and emissions as The Washington Post quotes anonymous ...

How concerned should the U.S. be over homegrown variants? Vaccine makers are already planning boosters to attack new versions of the coronavirus, while researchers work to figure out how dangerous they really are. BySarah Elizabeth Richards Email Dramatic spikes in COVID-19 infection rates over the past year are most often linked to people ditching their masks or gathering in large groups. But infectious disease specialists are increasingly convinced there was another factor at play: The coronavirus itself was changing and becoming easier to spread. A growing body of genetic sequencing eviden...