Research programme with potential for dual use: scientists fear that the Insect Ally programme by the US could encourage other states to increase their own research activities in the field of biological warfare (MPG/D.Duneka)
Wired: The US military is hacking insects with virus DNA, raising fears of dangerous new bio-weapons
Darpa, the research arm of the US military, is embarking on a radical new trial, but researchers warn that the technology could be turned into a biological weapon
Making crops taller, tastier, and more resistant to disease is a tedious process. For thousands of years, the only option farmers had was to pick two plants that showed particularly desirable characteristics and breed them together, hopefully creating offspring that shared those promising traits and avoided undesirable ones.
Modern gene-mutating techniques sped up this process. First, researchers worked out that by bombarding embryonic cells with radiation, they could force mutations in plant genomes, causing desirable traits to occur at random. They could then pull out these mutated cells and use them to generate entirely new plant lines.
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More News On Concerns That The Pentagon Developing An Agricultural Bioweapon
The Pentagon is studying an insect army to defend crops. Critics fear a bioweapon. -- Washington Post
Viruses Spread by Insects to Crops Sound Scary. The Military Calls It Food Security. -- The New York Times
Scientists: US military program could be seen as bioweapon -- FOX News/AP
U.S. military project could be seen as a bioweapon, scientists warn -- NBC
US plan to genetically alter crops via insects feared to be biological war plan -- The Guardian
US military plan to spread viruses using insects could create ‘new class of biological weapon’, scientists warn -- The Independent
DARPA is Making Insects That Can Deliver Bioweapons, Scientists Claim -- Newsweek
The Pentagon is studying an insect army to defend crops. Critics fear a bioweapon -- Stuff
Scathing Report Accuses the Pentagon of Developing an Agricultural Bioweapon -- Gizmodo
Questions Raised About DARPA-Funded Crop Program -- The Scientist
2 comments:
Good. And we should use bio weapons to target the Taliban's opium fields. Why haven't we done this or at least tried to burn them down? It's their main source of income. .that and perhaps Meth
And as we know that ISIS and other terror groups started their fighting day high on Meth, why not shut down the meth lines? Harder to do than get rid of opium fields, I know, not we could also think outside the box and distribute bad Meth that makes them peaceful and sleepy rather than out to kill and torture on a Meth high. Or develop cool Meth action inhibitors and spray them before battle. Let's see how tough those God warriors are without their drug high.
Our program to destroy their opium crops did not work. It sent them back to ordinary farming and that did not pay so it was either opium or they would welcome the Taliban. The Taliban limited the amount grown and that worked. Choose: either let them grow their cash crop or have them welcome Taliban
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