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Commentary On Articles by Charles F. Dasey and Thomas R. Dashiell On the Biological Defense Research Program (Bdrp)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Robert J. Rutman  and
Harry J. Disch
Robert J. Rutman
Affiliation:
School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6215
Harry J. Disch
Affiliation:
National Security Program, Scientists' Institute for Public Information, 355 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017
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In so far as any new technology or information in biology or biomedicine is also potentially relevant to biological warfare (BW), and therefore to the Biological Defense Research Program (BDRP), BDRP is equivalent to a biore-search program, making it, ipso facto, unnecessary. The papers by Dashiell and Dasey reviewed herein certainly present this equivalence and provide very little, if any, justification of BDRP as having a unique, distinctive military role requiring budgetary dispensations. In fact, the only specific military role mentioned for BDRP, that of protecting personnel, would utilize military means developed for chemical warfare.

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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 9 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Biotechnology and International Conflict , August 1990 , pp. 117 - 121
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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