In a three-page cover letter written in stilted English and dated April 4, 1983, Leonid A. Rvachev urged them to support the creation of an international body to monitor the development of such models: “… The only way, in fact, the peoples to survive and restore their way of life if a desolating outbreak [of a genetically engineered agent] happens to be not localized within an initially-stricken city is to erect timely the world computer center capable to model all potential variants of the imminent pandemic, and to work out an optimum strategy to balance contradictory demands of epidemiology and economy. In other words, lest anybody get into a real mess, time presses to deploy another MESS – Mondial Epidemiological Security System, able and ready for both computer forecast and urgent control actions all over the space involved.”

In more recent correspondence, Rvachev reiterated his position, citing Canadian Dr. S. Narang’s 1981 United Nations paper on the potential dangers of genetic engineering. “No one can guarantee.” he wrote, quoting Narang, “that irresponsible people with adequate training will not use recombinant DNA technology to develop instruments of destruction, [so that] virulent organisms of frightening potency might be developed and used.”

http://newsletter.convergenceri.com/stories/averting-biological-warfare,7143?


Horizon with an investigation of the sordid 40-year history of germ warfare, a history rich in allegation, inhumanity, cover-ups, perversion of justice and blatant use of unwitting civilian populations in the West for biological experimentation.
Today military laboratories continue to work with deadly organisms like anthrax, plague and lassa fever. Is it 'defensive biology' as they claim, or offensive germ warfare in disguise? And now the latest techniques of genetic engineering for viruses and bacteria raise the spectre of even deadlier biological weapons. We could be perched on the brink of a new biological arms race - one that will include Third World countries, and even terrorist organisations.

Note: starting at 34:20 the video changes momentarily, probably due to someone turning the station while recording.

https://thetvdb.com/series/horizon/allseasons/official


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