Mr ethnic cleanser should be glad.
INADEQUATE CONTROLS FOR RACE-SPECIFIC BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS, WARNS
JANE’S
Recent outcry in the UK over genetically modified foods would not have
occurred if there were adequate controls and regulations in the field of
genetic science. These controls must improve quickly if we are to prevent
a proliferation of race-specific biological weapon (“ethnic” weapon)
availability, warns John Eldridge in the new edition of Jane’s Nuclear,
Biological and Chemical Defence.
Eldridge notes that a number of projects are now publicly providing too
much information that is useful in the construction of ethnic weapons:
“full exposure of data on both the common DNA in the human species and
also its degree of variety should be subject to control”. There is an
urgent need to establish a common ethical consensus regarding the uses of
genetic research, so that stronger legislation can be put in place.
Additionally, world-wide advances in laboratory technology mean that it
will not be long before any country could theoretically develop an ethnic
weapon arsenal.
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