Deadly Code

Aims

 

To show how:

  • Advances in scientific knowledge and understanding open the doors to useful applications and also to potential misuse of those advances.
  • Living organisms can pose major threats to individual lives and to wider society.
  • At the molecular level, living processes can be harnessed to give both beneficial and harmful outcomes.
  • A few individuals, organisations and states have an interest in the development of new forms of weaponry, but most others have a strong interest in preventing such developments taking place.
  • New information which may assist in the development of biological weapons can arise from seemingly unrelated areas of research.



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