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James Revill

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James Revill is a research fellow with the Harvard Sussex Program at SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research)

July 2017

  • Teri Pengilley for The Guardian Laxmi, 28, a survivor of an acid attack in India at the age of 15, campaigns for Stop Acid Attacks. Seen checking in a mirror ahead of her catwalk appearance at the GMPS Foundation Fashion Show in London.

    Political science
    Could our approach to chemical weapons help reduce the threat of acid attacks?

    UK expertise in preventing the misuse of chemical weapons should be applied to tackling the alarming rise in acid attacks

March 2015

  • bioweapons attack

    Political science
    Happy birthday to the bioweapons convention

    James Revill and Caitríona McLeish: Recent proposals for biological deterrence shouldn’t spoil the 40th birthday party of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. But they serve as a reminder of the need to guard against the creeping legitimization of biological weapons.

August 2013

  • Meanwhile UN chemical weapons experts wearing gas masks carry samples from one of the sites of an alleged chemical weapons attack in the Ain Tarma neighbourhood of Damascus.

    Political science
    Chemical weapons and Syria: we need evidence-based, international justice

    James Revill: The history of chemical and biological warfare is riddled with false allegations, misinformation and propaganda

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