PROJECT COAST: Peace-driven science rises from the ashes of apartheid-era bioterrorism
Decades after Project Coast, South Africa has rebuilt its biosecurity around peace. But new global threats demand stronger national and regional governance.
Decades after Project Coast, South Africa has rebuilt its biosecurity around peace. Signed the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention on April 10, 1972, and ratified it in November 1975, South Africa became the first country to ban an entire class of weapons. However, concerns about chemical and biological weapon use in global conflicts, such as in Ukraine, have led to a reflection on Project Coast, the only African country that developed both biological and nuclear capabilities.
This six-part series explores the rise and fall of Project Coast, focusing on its biosecurity shortcomings.
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