{"id":9552,"date":"2026-06-09T12:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/?p=9552"},"modified":"2026-06-10T14:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T12:02:19","slug":"research-portrait-naomi-rio-project-coast-south-africas-apartheid-era-chemical-and-biological-warfare-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/uncategorized\/research-portrait-naomi-rio-project-coast-south-africas-apartheid-era-chemical-and-biological-warfare-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Portrait – Naomi Rio “Project Coast, South Africa’s Apartheid-Era Chemical and Biological Warfare Program”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“‘Project Coast’, South Africa’s Apartheid-Era Chemical and Biological Warfare Program: A Historical Reassessement and contemporary security implications”<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

D\u00e9couvrez notre nouveau portrait de recherche !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naomi Rio est doctorante \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Hambourg, sous la direction de Kathleen Vogel de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 d\u2019\u00c9tat de l\u2019Arizona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intitul\u00e9e \u00ab \u201cProject Coast\u201d, le programme d\u2019armement chimique et biologique sous l\u2019apartheid : r\u00e9vision historique et implications s\u00e9curitaires de nos jours \u00bb, la th\u00e8se de Naomi analyse en profondeur le \u201cProject Coast\u201d afin de mieux comprendre son fonctionnement et ses liens avec l\u2019appareil de surveillance du r\u00e9gime de l\u2019apartheid. Son travail vise \u00e9galement \u00e0 \u00e9clairer les conditions de mise en place de tels programmes d\u2019armement chimique ou biologique par un \u00c9tat, \u00e0 la lumi\u00e8re du contexte g\u00e9opolitique actuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour en apprendre plus sur le travail de Naomi, retrouvez son dernier article \u00ab Silent Killers, Not Signals: Why States Use Poison in Assassinations<\/strong> \u00bb : <\/strong> <\/mark>https:\/\/warontherocks.com\/silent-killers-not-signals-why-states-use-poison-in-assassinations\/<\/mark><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Discover our new Research Portrait!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naomi Rio is a PhD student at the University of Hamburg, supervised by Prof. Kathleen Vogel from Arizona State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Titled \u201c\u2018Project Coast\u2019, South Africa\u2019s Apartheid-Era Chemical and Biological Warfare Program: a historical reassessment and contemporary security implications\u201d, Naomi\u2019s PhD research investigates \u201cProject Coast\u201d to better understand how it was operated and its links with the Apartheid regime\u2019s surveillance system. Her work also aims to highlight the conditions under which a State establishes such chemical and biological warfare programs, in relation to the current geopolitical context. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about Naomi\u2019s work, read her recent article \u201cSilent Killers, Not Signals: Why States Use Poison in Assassinations\u201d : <\/mark><\/strong>https:\/\/warontherocks.com\/silent-killers-not-signals-why-states-use-poison-in-assassinations\/<\/mark><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“‘Project Coast’, South Africa’s Apartheid-Era Chemical and Biological Warfare Program: A Historical Reassessement and contemporary security implications” D\u00e9couvrez notre nouveau portrait de recherche ! Naomi Rio est doctorante \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Hambourg, sous la direction de Kathleen Vogel de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 d\u2019\u00c9tat de l\u2019Arizona. Intitul\u00e9e \u00ab \u201cProject Coast\u201d, le programme d\u2019armement chimique et biologique sous l\u2019apartheid : r\u00e9vision […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":9570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,43,21,46,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-dissemination","category-news","category-research-portraits","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9552"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9619,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9552\/revisions\/9619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}