The risk of bioweapons use: Considering the evidence base
The risk of bioweapons use: Considering the evidence base
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使用生物武器的风险：考虑证据基础
DOI：
10.1057/biosoc.2013.38
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发表时间：
2014
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影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Lentzos F
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作者：
Lentzos F
有些武器被认为是如此可恶，以致国际社会已同意彻底消除它们。首先是生物武器。它们的使用在1925年被禁止；1972年它们的开发、生产和储存。然而，对这些武器的担忧并没有消失。的确，911事件和炭疽病毒信件之后，尽管证据似乎非常薄弱，但对它们的政治关注有所增加。这次圆桌会议询问了四位主要的生物裁军和不扩散专家，他们对生物武器扩散和使用的风险、禁止和禁止使用生物武器使人生病和杀人的力度以及生命科学家在这方面的责任的看法。
There are some weapons deemed so abhorrent that the international community has agreed to eliminate them completely. The first of these was biological weapons. Their use was banned in 1925; their development, production and stockpiling in 1972. Yet concerns about these weapons have not gone away. Indeed, post 9/11 and the anthrax letters, the political attention to them has increased despite what seems to be a very weak evidence base. This roundtable asks four leading biological disarmament and non-proliferation experts their views on the risk of bioweapons proliferation and use, the strength of the taboo and prohibition against the use of biology to sicken and kill people, and the responsibility of life scientists in this regard.