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Annan warns of biotech dangers

Filed in archive Biotech by george elvin on November 24, 2006

Annan warns of biotech dangers
While the Israeli government was busy this week acknowledging its developing nanotech arsenal, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan was in Switzerland warning of the dangers posed by military and terrorist applications of biotechnology.

"When used negligently," said the Secretary-General, "or misused deliberately, biotechnology could inflict the most profoundlinks human suffering -- ranging from the accidental release of disease agents into the environment, to intentional disease outbreaks caused by State or non-State actors."

The same could be said of nanotechnology, and anyone who can afford the equipment can now go out and buy a desktop nanofactory giving them the power to create new nanomaterials.

When we consider that, and the potential for harm, the words of one Sandia National Laboratory nanoscientist take on a sinister tone: "Design possibilities are limited only by one's imagination." (photo UN)


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