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Article: The offensive-defensive distinction in military biological research. (includes excerpt from Genewatch's Pledge Against the Military Use of Biological Research)
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- The Hastings Center Report
- Article date:
- May 1, 1990
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Should medical researchers not participate in military biological research? The argument for "no participation " falsely assumes there is no practical and moral distinction between offensive and defensive military biological research.
In April 1989, the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command published the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) that allowed the Biological Defense Research Program (BDRP) to continue. This document states that the purpose of the BDRP is to maintain and promote national defense with respect to potential biological wayfare threats.
The major objectives of the BDRP are to develop measures for ...