A Socio-Computational Approach to Predicting Bioweapon Proliferation.

Predicting countries that will seek bioweapons (BW) enables the international community to act early in order to prevent these countries from acquiring such weapons. Unfortunately, the literature on countries' BW programs mainly consists of case studies that focus on one or a few countries. Although case studies are valuable, they are typically not predictive. Moreover, case studies require substa...