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Terrorism

From the Munich Olympics to 9/11 to worldwide bombings and mass shootings, terrorism is by no means a localized or recent phenomenon. Efforts to both catalog and counter terrorism, both in the United States and abroad, have been a key focus of RAND research since the early 1970s.

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May 5, 2026

Force Multipliers in the Americas: Harnessing Security Force Assistance to Bolster Homeland Defense and U.S. Strategic Objectives in Latin America

In this report, the authors outline potential ways to harness the full potential of U.S. Department of War security force assistance activities in Latin America.
Research

Apr 27, 2026

Agricultural Security Considerations for the U.S. Corn Belt: Reviewing Key Threats and Mitigation Strategies for Bioresiliency

The authors examine key threat categories to the agricultural industries of the U.S. Corn Belt and identify proactive and integrated approaches to safeguarding U.S. crop production against emerging biological, environmental, and societal risks.
Commentary

Apr 19, 2026

Israel's Lebanese Campaign Will Backfire

A prolonged Israeli presence in Lebanon will generate friction, cost lives, and feed the very narrative of resistance that Hezbollah exploits. This moment offers a rare chance to target a militia without making war on the Lebanese people or state.
Research

Apr 6, 2026

Infinite Potential—Insights from the Viral Uplift Scenario: After-Action Report from a Sequence of Day After Artificial General Intelligence Exercises

In this after-action report, the authors describe a series of exercises centered on the misuse of artificial intelligence models to generate novel biological threats and intended to elicit policy options that could help reduce the risks and impact.
Research

Mar 10, 2026

Cost–benefit analysis for synthetic nucleic acid screening in the European Union

An EU cost–benefit analysis of synthetic DNA/RNA screening policies comparing voluntary, conditional and mandatory approaches. Covers biosecurity risk reduction, market impacts, research effects and regulatory design implications for EU policymakers.
Tool

Mar 4, 2026

Tactical Will to Fight Assessment Guide: A How-To Manual for Conducting Tactical Will to Fight Assessments

The objective of this tool is to improve will to fight (W2F) analysis and assessments. The tool gives analysts (information, intelligence, or otherwise) a structured analytic approach for assessing adversary or partner W2F at the tactical level.
Commentary

Feb 12, 2026

The Weapons of Mass Destruction AI Security Gap

The AI ecosystem may be too narrowly focused on a single threat model: the “lone wolf virus terrorist.” This emphasis on individual actors could leave state-based and terrorist group threats dangerously under-examined.
Research

Feb 3, 2026

Bridging the Digital to Physical Divide: Evaluating LLM Agents on Benchtop DNA Acquisition

This report describes an automatable evaluation of eight frontier large language model (LLM) agents on their ability to design DNA segments, interact with a benchtop DNA synthesizer, and generate laboratory protocols.
Research

Jan 9, 2026

FUSE: A unified framework for International Health Regulations, the Biological Weapons Convention, and UN Security Council Resolution 1540

The report proposes a unified framework to streamline fragmented IHR, BWC and UNSCR 1540 biosecurity reporting, reducing duplication, improving preparedness visibility and supporting coordinated response to biological threats.
Expert Insights

Dec 31, 2025

Contemporary Foundation AI Models Increase Biological Weapons Risk

Examining contemporary foundation artificial intelligence (AI) models, the authors show that AI models can successfully guide users through the technical processes required to develop biological weapons, which might increase the risk of their use.
Research

Dec 2, 2025

First convening of the UK Microbial Forensics Consortium 2024: Workshop summary

Workshop findings from the UK Microbial Forensics Consortium highlight gaps in roles, data sharing, forensic capability and communication, offering recommendations to strengthen the UK's ability to investigate and attribute biological threats.
Research

Nov 25, 2025

Toward Comprehensive Benchmarking of the Biological Knowledge of Frontier Large Language Models

The authors evaluate the most-capable artificial intelligence (AI) models (as of May 2025) against eight knowledge benchmarks to determine the degree to which frontier AI models pose a risk of helping bad actors create biological or chemical weapons.

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