Policy

Briefings

2024 Executive branch agencies working to implement Executive Order 14110

Edison R and Esvelt KM. "DNA synthesis screening: A technical and policy brief relevant to E.O. 14110."

PDF.  20 March 2024.


2022 U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight.

"Credible pandemic virus identification will trigger the immediate proliferation of agents as lethal as nuclear devices."

Written testimony, 3 August 2022.


2021 U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation.

"Pandemic virus prediction and the proliferation of accessible weapons of mass destruction."  

Written testimony, 8 December 2021.