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Rutherford, "Synthetic Biology and the Rise of the Spider-Goats. "
126 became a threat to native trees and plants
Richard J. Blaustein, "Kudzus Invasion into Southern United States Life and Culture," 2001, www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/ja/ja_blaustein001.pdf.
127 chain reaction in the ocean and create an unimaginable ecological Armageddon
Al Gore, "Planning a New Biotechnology Policy," Harvard Journal of Law and Technology 5 (1991): 1930.
128 who were confident that such an event was absurdly implausible
Ibid.
129 diversion of trillions of dollars into weaponry
Wil S. Hylton, "How Ready Are We for Bioterrorism?," New York Times Magazine, October 26, 2011.
130 threatened the survival of human civilization?
George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, and Sam Nunn, "A World Free of Nuclear Weapons," Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2007.
131 are now often described as probably overblown
Wil S. Hylton, "Craig Venters Bugs Might Save the World," New York Times Magazine, June 3, 2012.
132 "I dont think anyone knows"
Ibid.
133 is the possibility of a new generation of biological weapons
Alexander Kelle, "Synthetic Biology and Biosecurity," EMBO Reports 10 (2009): S23S27.
134 Soviet Union in a secret biological weapons program
Ibid.
135 "to attack genetically specific sub-populations"
Ibid.
136 publishing the full genetic sequence that accompanied their papers
Ibid.
137 involved in monitoring genetic research that could lead to new bioweapons
National Inst.i.tutes of Health, Office of Science Policy, "About NSABB," 2012, http://oba.od.nih.gov/biosecurity/about_nsabb.html.
138 research teams working on projects considered militarily sensitive
Sample, "Nature Publishes Details of Bird Flu Strain That Could Spread Among People."
139 federally funded research into the cloning of human beings
Center for Genetics and Society, "Failure to Pa.s.s Federal Cloning Legislation, 19972003," http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=305.
140 legal implications of human cloning
Mary Meehan, "Looking More Like America?," Our Sunday Visitor, November 3, 1996, http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/LOOKLIKE.TXT.
141 government-financed research program into ethics
Edward J. Larson, "Half a t.i.the for Ethics," National Forum 73, no. 2 (Spring 1993): 1518.