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title: "Dr. Philipp Bleek"
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date: "2026-08-07T05:57:46+00:00"
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## Dr. Philipp Bleek
###### 11 July 2019 | [Knoxville26](https://cbrneworld.com/index.php?option=com_tags&view=tag&id%5B0%5D=107:knoxville26)
Dr. Philipp C. Bleek is a Professor in the Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies program, and a Fellow at both the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, all at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California.
His work focuses on the causes, consequences, and amelioration of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons threats, from both state and non-state actors, at the intersection of academia, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, and government.
Dr. Bleek served as an expert on the 2022-24 Congressionally-mandated, Department of Defense-sponsored, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine-convened study “Assessing and Improving Strategies for Preventing, Countering, and Responding to Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism: Chemical Threats.”
In 2012-13, while on leave from his faculty position, he served as Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs in the Office of the Secretar of Defense.
He is a former Emergency Medical Technician (New Jersey).
In CBRNe World, he authored "A Second Bite at the Poisonous Apple?"
(June 2025, with Tekla Gagoshidze), "Eye of Newt, Toe of Frog...Maybe Just Novichok?" (June 2024, with Grey Kegler), “Acid Reign of Terror”
(May 2020, with Cyrus Jabbari), “Fellowship of the Drone” (February 2019, with Zachary Kallenborn), and was interviewed in “Into the Green” (April 2021, by Gwyn Winfield, including Zachary Kallenborn).
These and other publications are available at his faculty page.
Assasination Tools II (B&R of Interest) - Philipp Bleek3592
Assasination Tools I (Chem of Interest) and Panel3594
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