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The World Should Treat Pandemics Like It Treats Chemical Weapons

Nina Schwalbe, Susanna Lehtimaki
Foreign Policy 2021

While the world was still battling COVID-19, it was time to start preparing for the next pandemic, above all, how to prevent it. This piece argues for taking pandemic containment as seriously as other dangers of mass destruction, such as nuclear proliferation and chemical weapons, and for adapting the treaty toolbox used to prevent the spread of those weapons.

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