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Implications of Advances in Neuroscience

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Professor Matthew Meselson began his landmark 2000 article (Chapter 3) on ‘Averting the Hostile Exploitation of Biotechnology’ by suggesting that all major technologies have been exploited intensively for hostile purposes in the past and then he asked the question of concern here, ‘Must this also happen with biotechnology, certain to be a dominant technology of the twenty-first century?’ Significantly, Meselson then went on to quote directly from an award-winning essay by a military officer that had appeared in the summer 1989 volume of the US Naval War College Review. This essay assumed that biotechnology would be exploited intensively for hostile purposes and therefore stated that:1

The outlook for biological weapons is grimly interesting. Weaponeers have only just begun to explore the potential of the biotechnology revolution. It is sobering to realise that far more development lies ahead than behind, [emphasis added]

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Dando, M. (2015). Implications of Advances in Neuroscience. In: Neuroscience and the Future of Chemical-Biological Weapons. Global Issues Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137381828_7

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