{"id":96277,"date":"2019-09-16T00:22:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T07:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/engineered-bioweapons-are-the-new-security-threat-heres-what-you-need-to-know"},"modified":"2019-09-16T00:22:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T07:22:53","slug":"engineered-bioweapons-are-the-new-security-threat-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/engineered-bioweapons-are-the-new-security-threat-heres-what-you-need-to-know","title":{"rendered":"Engineered Bioweapons Are the New Security Threat, Here\u2019s What You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Engineered Viruses Are the New Biological Weapons, Here&#039;s What You Need to Know\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NBBIfGaml0c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>;-;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Bioweapons have been around for centuries, but with advances in synthetic biology we\u2019re now able to make them from scratch.<br \/> \u00bbSubscribe to Seeker! <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribeseeker\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribeseeker<\/a><br \/> \u00bbWatch more Focal Point | <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2lJeJUL\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2lJeJUL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The man who stopped America\u2019s biological weapons program<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/2019\/4\/9\/18301321\/biological-weapons-xrisks-future-of-life-institute\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/2019\/4\/9\/18301321\/biologi\u2026-institute<\/a><br \/> \u201cToday, the use of biological weapons is almost unthinkable. But this wasn\u2019t true in the 1960s, when the US government stockpiled such weapons and work continued on developing new, more effective variants. There was an agreement about the use of biological weapons \u2014 the post-World War I Geneva Protocol, which also covered chemical weapons \u2014 but the United States wasn\u2019t among the signatories to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Synthetic biology raises risk of new bioweapons, US report warns<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2018\/jun\/19\/urgent-need-to-prepare-for-manmade-virus-attacks-says-us-government-report\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2018\/jun\/19\/urgent-need-\u2026ent-report<\/a><br \/> \u201cThe rapid rise of synthetic biology, a futuristic field of science that seeks to master the machinery of life, has raised the risk of a new generation of bioweapons, according a major US report into the state of the art.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russian and American use of Yersinia pestis as a Biological Weapon<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/engineered-bioweapons-are-the-new-security-threat-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">Continue reading \u201cEngineered Bioweapons Are the New Security Threat, Here\u2019s What You Need to Know\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>;-; Bioweapons have been around for centuries, but with advances in synthetic biology we\u2019re now able to make them from scratch. \u00bbSubscribe to Seeker! http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribeseeker \u00bbWatch more Focal Point | https:\/\/bit.ly\/2lJeJUL The man who stopped America\u2019s biological weapons program https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/2019\/4\/9\/18301321\/biologi\u2026-institute \u201cToday, the use of biological weapons is almost unthinkable. But this wasn\u2019t true in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1490,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-government","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}