Events

LYNN KLOTZ & ED SYLVESTER: BREEDING BIO INSECURITY      7PM Pulitzer Prize nominated science journalist Ed Sylvester (The Gene Age) and Lynn Klotz, Senior Science Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, present their new book Breeding Bio Insecurity: How U.S. Biodefense is Exporting Fear, Globalizing Risk, and Making Us All Less Secure. Addressing a popular audience, they argue that the proliferation of high-biosecurity labs nationwide, at a cost of billions, leaves us more open to deadly accidents or theft than we were before the lethal anthrax-letter mailings following 9/11. They also recommend concrete actions for the administration, scientists, and all Americans. An impassioned warning that never loses sight of political and scientific reality, Breeding Bio Insecurity is a crucial first step toward meeting the evolving national security threats of the twenty-first century.