A selection of recent publications
and citations is below. Web links are provided when available.
KTRH (Houston, TX), 19 September 2007
News report on Texas lab accidents
Austin American Statesman, 19 September 2007
UT labs in Houston, San Antonio reported mishaps
KUT (Austin, TX) , 18 September 2007
News report on Texas lab accidents
Athens Banner-Herald (GA), 15 September 2007
Some sure, some not, of lab's safety
Science, 14 September 2007
Lapses in Biosafety Spark Concern
Austin American Statesman, 14 September 2007
UT failed to report lab incidents
Science, 7 September 2007
Texas University Responds to Biosafety Complaints
Houston Chronicle, 7 September 2007
Texas A&M president promises to fix bioweapon lab problems
KPFA (Berkeley / San Francisco), 7 September 2007
Report on biodefense labs and oversight
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 September 2007
Biodefense lab at A&M flooded, watchdog says
Bryan - College Station Eagle, 6 September 2007
University lab safety official steps down
Dallas Morning News, 6 September 2007
Second Texas A&M research official resigns amid biosafety report
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 September 2007
A&M labs rife with lapses
Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 September 2007
Texas A&M Violated Numerous Biosafety Rules, Federal Agency Says
Dallas Morning News, 5 September 2007
CDC suspends biodefense research at Texas A&M
Nature, 31 August 2007
Lack of training in biodefense research leading to dangerous leaks
Financial Times, 29 August 2007
Biosecurity lapses
North County Times (California), 25 August 2007
Infectious bacteria, viruses live in local labs
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 August 2007
As biodefense research booms, reward is weighed against risk
Daily Telegraph, 11 August 2007
How safe is biosafe?
New Scientist, 9 August 2007
UK biosecurity lapse is "tip of iceberg"
Daily Texan, 7 August 2007
Group seeks information on biosafety in UT labs
Scientific American, August 2007
Laboratory Letdowns
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 20 July 2007
Outage exposes flaws at CDC lab
The Bryan-College Station Eagle (TX), 12 July 2007
Texas A&M loses bid for biodefense facility
Nature, 11 July 2007
Safety clause (editorial): US research on bioweapons has expanded rapidly, without sufficiently tranparent regulation
Toledo Blade, 9 July 2007
Toledoans not told of pathogen exposures
New Scientist, 4 July 2007
Biolab shut down after accidents
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 July 2007
Bioweapons mishaps prompt call for change
Dallas Morning News, 4 July 2007
Bioagent research funds may put safety at risk
Nature, 3 July 2007
Biodefence work halted at US university
Wired News, 3 July 2007
CDC Shuts Down Bioweapons Lab After Infections
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 July 2007
Regulators halt A&M bioweapons research
The Chronicle of Higer Education, 2 July 2007
CDC Halts Disease Research at Texas A&M U.
Dallas Morning News, 2 July 2007
CDC suspends A&M research on infectious diseases
Science, 2 July 2007
Pathogen Work at Texas A&M Suspended
Daily Battalion (TX), 2 July 2007
Davis sees no cover-up in investigation
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 June 2007
Group warns of biological agent research
KLIF (Dallas, TX), 27 June 2007
News Interview on Texas A&M Infections
KCEN (Waco, TX), 27 June 2007
News Segment on Texas A&M Infections
The Bryan-College Station Eagle (TX), 27 June 2007
A&M is again reviewed
KBTX (Bryan - College Station, TX), 27 June 2007
News Interview on Texas A&M Infections
The Chronicle of Higer Education, 27 June 2007
Advocacy Group Says Texas A&M U. Failed to Immediately Report Workers' Exposure to Bacterium
Dallas Morning News, 27 June 2007
CDC probes A&M bioweapons infections
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2007
A&M covered up bio-weapon infections, group says
AFP, 15 June 2007
Pentágono pensó en crear una 'bomba gay' que transformara a los soldados enemigos en homosexuales
Le Figaro, 13 June 2007
Quand l'armée américaine planchait sur une "bombe gay"
MSNBC, 12 June 2007
Make love not war
Libero (Italy), 12 June 2007
Soldati? Sembrano checche
Fox News, 12 June 2007
Air Force Considered Gay "Love Bomb"
Dag Bladet (Norway), 12 June 2007
USA ville lage homobomber
Washington Post, 11 June 2007
Sunshine Project Uncovers US Military "Gay Bomb"
CBS 5 (San Francisco), 8 June 2007
Pentagon Confirms it Sought to Build a "Gay Bomb"
UPI, 25 April 2007
Bio-war lab contender had accident
Daily Battalion (TX), 23 April 2007
A&M under investigation after disease transmission
Science, 19 April 2007
Scope: Texan Mishap Not Reported
Bryan-College Station Eagle, 18 April 2007
A&M faces inquiry over brucella infection
New Scientist, 18 April 2007
Infection blunder revealed at animal testing lab
Houston Chronicle / Associated Press, 18 April 2007
A&M draws inquiry after researcher infected by bioweapon
WTAW (Bryan, TX), 16 April 2006
CDC Investigating Texas A&M Lab
British Medical Journal, 14 April 2007
Should the US and Russia destroy their stocks of smallpox virus?
Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 April 2007
Texas A&M U.'s Failure to Report Lab Incident That Sickened Researcher Could Cost It $500,000
The Scotsman, 12 April 2007
Destruction of 'criminal' smallpox stock urged
USA Today, 5 April 2007
Book details Army drug experiments
Nature, 4 April 2007
Biosafety labs urged to report accidents and near misses
Salt Lake Tribune, 22 March 2007
Dugway aims to revive Cold War lab
KTBC (Austin, TX), 26 February 2007
News Report on University of Texas H5N1 Incident
KPFK-FM (Los Angeles, CA), 6 February 2007
News Interview on Smallpox Eradication / NSABB
Lawrence (Kansas) Journal-World, 5 February 2007
Roberts to push lab effort at Legislature
San Francisco Chronicle, 18 January 2007
Animal tests provide insight into 1918 flu virus
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 17 January 2007
Government oversight and the life sciences
In These Times, 12 January 2007
"Non-Lethal" Weaponry: The Next Generation
KPFT-FM (Houston, TX), 10 January 2007
News Interview on Biosafety Committees
OpEd News, 6 January 2007
Over 100 Biotech Labs Refuse To Divulge Operations Having Germ Warfare Potential
Baltimore Sun, 10 December 2006
Some of Edgewood's most secret work involves weapons that aren't supposed to kill
ScienceNow, 5 December 2006
Scientist, Police Thyself
Wired News, 5 December 2006
New Weapon, Human Tests
WORT- FM (Madison, WI), 30 November 2006
Interview on NBAF BSL-4 laboratory
New York Times, 24 August 2006
U.S. Pushing for Release of Flu Data
Inside Higher Ed, 23 August 2006
Unintended Sunshine
Associated Press, 23 August 2006
CDC Releasing Gene Blueprints
The Scientist, 10 August 2006
US shortens list of bio-agro applicants
Oakland Tribune, 10 August 2006
UC, lab courting bio tech facility
Lexington Herald-Leader (KY), 10 August 2006
Pulaski survives cut for biolab
Reuters, 2 August 2006
Planned biolab worries Mass. neighborhood
Washington Post, 31 July 2006
Custom-Built Pathogens Raise Bioterror Fears
Chemical and Engineering News, 31 July 2006
Select Agents: University Labs Are Found Noncompliant With Security Rules for Bioterror Agents
Science Now, 17 July 2006
How Dangerous is My Science?
KIRO-AM (Seattle, WA), 15 June 2006
Interview on US "non-lethal" weapons programs
The Guardian, 14 June 2006
Lax laws, virus DNA and potential for terror
Chemical and Engineering News, 31 May 2006
Smallpox Destruction Delayed Again
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, 28 May 2006
Use fungus to destroy drug fields, Souder says
Birmingham News, 30 April 2006
Anthrax error in 2004 revealed lab problems
Nature Medicine, 27 April 2006
Security fears plague deadly disease lab's move to central London
KOPN-FM (Columbia, Missouri), 25 April 2006
Interview on University of Missouri interest in NBAF BSL-4 Lab
Arkansas Democrat Gazette, 22 April 2006
Officials pursuing development of bio-threat assessment center
Lexington Herald-Leader, 2 April 2006
Kentucky among at least nine states bidding on bioterror lab
Lexington Herald-Leader, 1 April 2006
Bioterror lab competitors look tough
Salt Lake City Weekly, 23 February 2006
Just Testing - Is the U.S. Government making anthrax bombs in Utah? (cover)
Wall Street Journal, 28 December 2005
A Building Boom for Labs
Zeit, 17 November 2005
Der Geist von Vietnam
Cleveland Plain Dealer, 13 November 2005
Lab at KSU to offer training on bioterrorism agents
Associated Press, 9 November 2005
CDC may distribute 1918 killer flu
Indian Country Today, 20 October 2005
Skull Valley's nerve gas neighbors
The Independent (UK) , 9 October 2005
Revealed: police's new supergun will blast rioters off their feet
Boston Globe, 6 October 2005
Scientists re-create 1918 flu pandemic virus
San Francisco Chronicle, 6 October 2005
Deadliest flu bug given new life in US laboratory
KFWB-AM (Los Angeles), 6 October 2005
Interview on 1918 inflluenza
Atlanta Journal Constitution, 6 October 2005
Deadly 1918 flu reborn for study
Canadian Press, 5 October 2005
American researchers recreate 1918 pandemic flu virus for study purposes
Spiegel, 26 September 2005
US-Militärs wollen Anthrax kaufen
New Scientist, 24 September 2005
US army plans to bulk-buy anthrax
Newark Star-Ledger, 16 September 2005
Plague researchers told to boost security; Missing infected mice underscore concerns
BBC Five, 9 September 2005
Interview on US biodefense program / lab safety
ABC Radio (Australia), 4 September 2005
Background Briefing: BioWar
KCRL- FM (Salt Lake City), 29 August 2005
Interview on "non-lethal" weapons
New Scientist, 23 July 2005
Details of US microwave-weapon tests revealed
Science, 8 July 2005
New Panel to Offer Guidance on Dual-Use Science
Science, 27 May 2005
WHA Gives Yellow Light for Variola Studies
Deccan Herald, 19 May 2005
Tinkering with nature 'could prove deadly'
BBC News, 18 May 2005
WHO to discuss smallpox research
Guardian (UK), 15 May 2005
US scientists push for go-ahead to genetically modify smallpox
Channel 4 News (UK), 15 May 2005
Opening Pandora's Box?
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May/June 2005
Biodefense: A Plague of Researchers
Seattle Times, 29 April 2005
Flaws detected after TB infects 3 at Seattle lab
Air America, 13 April 2005
Talk Segment on influenza incident, bioweapons, and safety
CBC Radio, 13 April 2005
Interview on influenza incident and research safety
Financial Times, 13 April 2005
Labs race to destroy flu virus after test kit mistake
New Scientist, 13 April 2005
Pandemic-causing 'Asian flu' accidentally released
Science, 7 April 2005
Ban Urged on Smallpox Studies
Sydney Morning Herald, 20 March 2005
Weapons of excruciating pain have ethicists up in arms
Orlando Weekly News, 17 March 2005
The Pain Gun
Indianapolis Star, 10 March 2005
Nonlethal weapons testing has its own perils
Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 8 March 2005
Schmerzen aus der Ferne
Independent (London), 4 March 2005
Pentagon attacked for 'pulse' gun that inflicts long-distance pain
New Scientist, 2 March 2005
Maximum pain is aim of new US weapon
Istoé (Brazil), 26 January 2005
A bomba cor-de-rosa
ABC Radio National (Australia), 19 January 2005
Breakfast Show: Interview on 'non-lethal' biochemical weapons
Folha de São Paulo, 18 January 2005
Laboratório propõe "bomba gay" para combater inimigos dos EUA
Membrana (Russia), 18 January 2005
Make Love, Not War
RCN Colombia (national news radio), 18 January 2005
Interview on US 'non-lethal' biochemical weapons
New Straits Times (Kuala Lumpur), 18 January 2005
US laboratory proposed weapon to stimulate homosexual behavior
Independent (Cape Town), 18 January 2005
NGO sheds light on US plan for 'gay chemical' (AFP)
El Tiempo (Bogotá), 18 January 2005
Estados Unidos estudió crear una bomba química que provocaba la homosexualidad (EFE)
ABC Western Australia, 17 January 2005
Morning Program: Interview on 'non-lethal' biochemical weapons
BBC Radio, 17 January 2005
Good Morning Scotland: Interview on 'non-lethal' biochemical weapons
KNX News (Los Angeles), 16 January 2005
Interview on 'non-lethal' biochemical weapons
Reuters, 16 January 2005
US pondered turning enemy gay
BBC News, 15 January 2005
US military pondered love not war
National Public Radio, 15 January 2005
Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me: Bluff the Listener
New Scientist, 15 January 2005
Pentagon reveals rejected [?] chemical weapons
CBC Radio One (Canada), 14 January 2005
As it Happens: Interview on 'non-lethal' chemical weapons
Prensa Latina, 14 January 2005
EE.UU ha tratado de desarrollar nuevas armas químicas
Gay.com, 14 January 2005
Air Force proposal sought gay sex weapon
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 12 January 2005
UW Wants Bioterrorism Lab
Charleston Post Courier, 2 January 2005
Good Morning Charleston
KEXP (Seattle/Tacoma/Olympia), 26 December 2004
Mind Over Matters (1918 influenza at the University of Washington)
Knight Ridder, 9 December 2004
Planned anti-bioterror labs raise risk to US, critics say
San Francisco Bay Guardian, 25 October 2004
Doping Up the Rabble
New Scientist, 21 October 2005
Experts fear escape of 1918 flu from lab
USA Today, 14 October 2004
Anthrax Slip-Ups Raise Fears About Planned Biolabs
Science, 8 October 2004
Science Scope: Report Faults Biosafety Panels
UPI, 6 October 2004
BioWar: Report says safety system failing
Congressional Quarterly Homeland Security , 23 September 2004
DHS Germwar Research Bugs Nonproliferation Watchdogs
Spiegel, 20 September 2004
Supergrippe im Labor
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 19 September 2004
1918 killer flu virus to be tested in UW lab
Reuters, 9 September 2004
Terrorism Fears Should Not Limit Access to Genome Sequences
Science & Public Affairs (UK), September 2004
Averting the hostile use of biomedical research
The Independent (London), 31 August 2004
A poisonous kind of justice
Science, 6 August 2004
Activist Throws a Bright Light on Institutes' Biosafety Panels
Spiegel, 31 July 2004
Chemiewaffen für die Bundeswehr?
KPOO-FM (San Francisco), 24 July 2004
Interview on US biodefense program
KRZA-FM (Alamosa, CO), 23 July 2004
Interview on US biodefense program
Pacifica Radio News, 21 July 2004
news segment: USMC censorship of TSP website
Associated Press, 16 July 2004
Marines get site to pull knockout gas info
Pacifica Radio News, 15 July 2004
Interview on Bioshield program
WHON-AM (Richmond, IN), 9 July 2004
Interview on US biodefense program
Daily Texan, 7 July 2004
Viewpoint: UT and Los Alamos - A Shared Silence
Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2004
Bioterror fight may spawn new risks
UN Observer (The Netherlands), 17 June 2004
German Army to be equipped with "non-lethal" chemical weapons
Science, 15 June 2004
Scrutiny on Biodefense Research Intensifies
Frederick (MD) News-Post, 15 June 2004
Detrick center's impact studied
Cleveland Plain Dealer, 13 June 2004
Need speeds up development of new nonlethal weapons
Oakland Tribune, 11 June 2004
Workers exposed to anthrax
Associated Press, 10 June 2004
Researchers exposed to anthrax
Oakland Tribune, 7 June 2004
U.S. bioterrorism research leaps past defensive tactics
Chemical
and Engineering News, 10 May 2004
New
Strategy, New Labs
Wall
Street Journal, 5 May 2004
SARS
Virus Shared With 50-Plus Labs
Ft.
Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, 5 May 2004
Families near Scripps project express worries about chemicals,
biohazards
Associated
Press, 29 April 2004
Fears rise along with 'hot lab' building boom (graphic of US
biodefense labs)
Global
Security Newswire, 21 April 2004
Pentagon
Panel Suggests Calmatives
Der
Spiegel, 22 March 2004
Arsenal
des Todes
Mother
Jones, March/April 2004
The
Next Worst Thing - America's Bioweapons
New
York Times, 10 February
New
Germ Labs Stir Debate Over Secrecy and Safety
WNUR
(Chicago), 17 January 2004
This
is Hell: Interview on US Biodefense Program
Alternet,
4 December 2003
A
Plague of Bioweapons
Focus Magazin, 24 November 2003
Tödliches
Design
WOZ
- Die Wochenzeitung (Switzerland), 13 November 2003
Boschs
Enkel
Le
Courrier (Geneva), 6 November 2003
Bioterrorisme ˆ l'Université
Süddeutsche
Zeitung, 22 October 2003
Ethnische
Kampfstoffe
Daily
Texan, 21 October 2003
Federal
agency looking at UTMB
OMB
Watcher, 20 October 2003
Texas
Attorney General's Ruling Undermines Public Access
Die
Zeit, 16 October 2003
Grippen,
Gräber und Gelehrte
Daily
Texan, 14 October 2003
AG
rules UTMB can keep records
Boston
Globe, 11 October 2003
At bioterror labs, a high-risk habitat
Galveston
County Daily News, 11 October 2003
Officials:
Safety at lab top priority
Birmingham
News, 1 October 2003
UAB
to get $15.8 million for biodefense lab
Dallas
Morning News, 1 October 2003
Galveston will be home of national biodefense lab
Christian
Science Monitor, 24 September 2003
Concern
over spread of biodefense labs
Galveston
County Daily News, 9 September 2003
UTMB records to be released
Portland
Tribune, 5 September 2003
OHSU loses hefty bid for biolab
Tri-Valley
Herald (CA), 27 August 2003
Biodefense
lab project faces suit
Nature,
21 August 2003
Bioweapons initiatives bogged down in talks
KTRH
Newsradio (Houston), 12 August 2003
News interview on UTMB secrecy
Houston
Chronicle, 12 August 2003
UTMB
secrecy on biosafety records illegal, group says
Galveston
County Daily News, 11 August 2003
Arms group, UTMB arguing over records
United
Press International, 6 August 2003
Living
Terror: Lab Secrets in Dispute
Baltimore
Sun, 29 July 2003
Deceit,
danger mark U.S. pursuit of new WMD
United
Press International, 1 July 2003
Living Terror I / II / III (series on US biodefense labs)
Nature,
19 June 2003
US Army Attacked Over Published Patent for Bioweapons Grenade
San
Francisco Chronicle, 9 June 2003
Patent says it can deliver chemical, biologcal agents
KPFK-FM
(Los Angeles), 2 June 2003
News Interview on US "non-lethal" weapons program
Die
Tageszeitung, 26 May 2003
Zusammenkunft mit einem Biowaffen-Experten
Neues
Deutschland, 23 May 2003
Bundeswehr
im Biowaffen-Zwielicht
KDHX-FM
(St. Louis), 20 May 2003
News Interview on Biodefense Research
St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, 18 May 2003
Plans
for network of biodefense labs raise concern for safety, intent
Le
Courrier (Geneva),
15 May 2003
New
weapons for old demons
Junge
Welt, 9 May 2003
C-Waffen gefunden: Was nun, Herr Blix?
Daily
Collegian (College Park, PA), 30 April 2003
Group Wants Boycott for Alleged Weapons
KUT-FM
(Austin), 28 April 2003
News report on proposed secrecy law
Philadelphia
Inquirer, 27 April 2003
Modifying plants to warn of terrorism
The
Observer (London), 8 April 2003
Chemical Hypocrites
Frankfurter
Rundschau, 4 April 2003
USA
entwickeln Waffen, die nicht tšten sollen
La
Jornada (Mexico City), 24 March 2003
Monos con misiles
Die
Tageszeitung, 12 March 2003
Mehr
Licht, bitte
The
Independent (London), 2 March 2003
US
Prepares to Use Toxic Gases in Iraq
Associated
Press (US), 2 March 2003
US
tear gas use in Iraq may violate weapons treaties
The Nation, 28 February 2003
Inspecting
US weapons
KPFK
Radio (Los Angeles), 27 February 2003
Interview on Rooting Out Evil / BTWC
The
Moscow Times, 27 February 2003
Why
No UN Inspections for the U.S.?
CanalPlus
(France), 26 February 2003
L'arroseur
arrose
KZZZ/KAAA
Radio (Arizona), 26 February 2003
News Interview on Rooting
Out Evil
(click to visit ROE website)
CKT
Radio (Montreal), 24 February 2003
News Interview on Rooting Out Evil
WABC
Radio (New York), 23 February 2003
News Interview on Rooting Out Evil
KPFA
Radio (Berkeley, CA), 23 February 2003
News Interview on Rooting Out Evil
Daily
Times (Pakistan), 21 February 2003
Chemical Brothers
KIRO
Radio (Seattle), 21 February 2003
News Interview on Rooting Out Evil
Financial
Times Deutschland, 21 February 2003
Folgen
eines Irak-Krieges: Pharmafirmen in der Klemme
Galveston
County Daily News, 20 February 2003
UTMB:
No secret research at lab
BBC
Radio 5, 17 February 2003
News Interview on Rooting Out Evil
The
Nation, 17 February 2003
The Pentagon's "Non-Lethal" Gas
Christian
Science Monitor, 14 February 2003
The fuzzy ethics of nonlethal weapons
Le
Monde, 13 February 2003
Le
Pentagone envisage d'utiliser des armes chimiques
Boston
Globe, 11 February 2003
Pursuit
of secure lab faces tough competition
CIUT
Radio (Toronto), 11 February 2003
Interview on US biochemical weapons planning
The
Nation, 10 February 2003
Daily
Outrage: You are getting very sleepy...
KVRX
Radio (Austin), 5 February 2003
Interview on US biodefense expansion
Daily
Texan, 23 January 2003
UTMB
lab to attain highest containment level
Long
Beach Press-Telegram, 20 January 2003
Less Lethal Force is Elusive
Missoula
Independent, 16 January 2003
The
Temptation of Dr. Weed
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