BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,339, March 31, 2025
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: While the Syrian chemical weapons program has been targeted and degraded since 2013, almost nothing has been done about Syria’s biological weapons program. The recent regime change in Syria …
Perspectives Paper No. 2,323, December 31, 2024
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The collapse of the Assad regime has returned the issue of Syrian chemical weapons to the fore. The international community now sees a favorable opportunity to root them out, provided that …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,112, August 3, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: More than a year and a half after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the way in which its causative virus first emanated remains unclear. While new viruses appearing …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,022, May 11, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The integration of intelligence and science will be the key to uncovering the genomic origin and direct source of the virus that sparked the COVID-19 pandemic. Both the Fact …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,021, May 11, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The WHO’s China-led international investigation into the origins of COVID-19 did not trace either the genomic derivation or the initial contraction of the virus that generated the pandemic. This …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,847, December 14, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: There has been a notable shift in thinking on the genomic origin and direct source of the virus that sparked the COVID-19 pandemic. While the possibility of a natural …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,795, November 2, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The vast, uninterrupted territory that contains North Korea, China, Pakistan, and Iran has greater geostrategic importance today than ever before. Of the two outermost countries of that territory, an …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,664, July 28, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The questions of the true genomic origin as well as the direct source of the initial SARS-CoV-2 strain that infected Patient Zero in China, an event that ultimately unleashed …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,429, January 29, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In July 2019, a rare event occurred in Canada. Suspected of espionage for China, a group of Chinese virologists was forcibly evicted from the Canadian National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,212, June 30, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: North Korea has found itself at a nuclear crossroads more than once, but the Trump-Pompeo-Bolton triumvirate significantly alters the current dynamic. The primary external forces acting on Pyongyang’s nuclear …
