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> https://nti.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NTI_Paper_BIO-TTX_Final.pdf

 

Executive Summary

 

I n March 2021, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) partnered with the Munich Security Conference (MSC)

to conduct a tabletop exercise on reducing high-consequence biological threats. Conducted virtually, the

exercise examined gaps in national and international biosecurity and pandemic preparedness architectures

and explored opportunities to improve capabilities to prevent and respond to high-consequence biological

events. Participants included 19 senior leaders and experts from across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and

Europe with decades of combined experience in public health, biotechnology industry, international

security, and philanthropy.

The exercise scenario portrayed a deadly, global pandemic involving an unusual strain of monkeypox virus

that emerged in the fictional nation of Brinia and spread globally over 18 months. Ultimately, the exercise

scenario revealed that the initial outbreak was caused by a terrorist attack using a pathogen engineered

in a laboratory with inadequate biosafety and biosecurity provisions and weak oversight. By the end of

'''the exercise, the fictional pandemic resulted in more than three billion cases and 270 million fatalities

worldwide.'''