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Human Experiments and National Security: The Need to Clarify Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2003

JONATHAN D. MORENO
JONATHAN D. MORENO
Affiliation:
Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia and the National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee
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On September 4, 2001, press reports indicated that the Defense Intelligence Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) planned to reproduce a strain of anthrax virus suspected of being held in Russian laboratories. According to the same reports, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), under the auspices of Project Clear Vision, is engaged in building replicas of bomblets believed to have been developed by the former Soviet Union. These small bombs were designed to disperse biological agents, including anthrax. Government attorneys were said to be confident that, because these projects were designed to develop defensive measures, they were not in violation of the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.

Type
Research Article
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , April 2003 , pp. 192 - 195
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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