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	<title>FAS Strategic Security Blog &#187; Nate Hafer</title>
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		<title>Anthrax scientist commits suicide</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2008/08/anthrax-scientist-commits-suicide.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was reported today in the Los Angeles Times that Bruce E. Ivins, a bioweapons scientist at Ft. Detrick MD has died of an apparent suicide. Ivins died on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 according to an obituary published in the Frederick News-Post. According to the LA Times, Ivins was under investigation in connection with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FAS Launches OTA Archive</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) launched the Office of Technology Assessment Archive, http://www.fas.org/ota. The site allows the public to access over 720 reports and documents produced by OTA during its 23 year history, including many that have not been available to the public previously. OTA served as an independent branch of the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Consultation Meeting of the NSABB</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, July 15, 2008 the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) hosted a meeting to solicit public comment on the June 2007 report, “Proposed Framework for the Oversight of Dual Use Life Sciences Research: Strategies for Minimizing the Potential Misuse of Research Information”.
The meeting was broken into three panels that examined different aspects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Promoting Mutual Security and Development through Bioscience Cooperation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cheryl Vos]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the CUBRC Center for International Science and Technology Advancement held a symposium entitled &#8220;Promoting Mutual Security and Development through Bioscience Cooperation&#8221;.  The meeting focused on ways to promote cooperation and networking across organizations to create a more prosperous and secure world.
Dr. Leonard Marcus of the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Meeting of the NSABB July 15th</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2008/06/public-meeting-of-the-nsabb-july-15th.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 15, 2008, the Federal government will be sponsoring a public consultation to engage the scientific community and research organizations in a discussion of a framework for the oversight of dual use research proposed by the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB). The proposed framework, which has been formally submitted by the Board [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NBACC director says they will not create threats at lab</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2008/05/nbacc-director-says-they-will-not-create-threats-at-lab.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The laboratory director of the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC), Dr. Patrick Fitch, said yesterday that research at the laboratory will not “create threats in order to study them”.  This statement is a welcome change from previous presentations about the lab’s mission.
The controversy about the research goals of the NBACC emerged after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Biodefense Science Board Meeting: Day 1</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2007/12/national_biodefense_science_bo-2.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2007/12/national_biodefense_science_bo-2.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ioelrich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Biodefense Science Board (NBSB) began their inaugural meeting yesterday in Washington DC.  The board, made up of 13 voting members and 21 non-voting ex officio representatives, was created as part of the 2006 Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act.  The NBSB was chartered with the task of providing expert advice to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Research Council Report slams NIH findings on Boston U containment lab</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2007/11/national_research_council_repo.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2007/11/national_research_council_repo.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ioelrich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Research Council (NRC) just released a report that finds that “a National Institutes of Health draft assessment of the risks associated with a proposed biocontainment laboratory at Boston University is &#8220;not sound and credible.”&#8221;
The NRC report came in response to a request by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for technical input into the scientific [...]]]></description>
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