| Description |
1 online resource (31 pages) : color illustrations |
| Series |
Maxwell paper ; no. 69 |
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Maxwell paper (Air University (U.S.). Air War College) ; no. 69.
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| Summary |
Two things are certain death and taxes! Or maybe just taxes. Scientists are attempting to cheat death with rapidly progressing technologies capable of constructing and manipulating life synthetically from basic chemical elements. While the advancing rates of capability in computing speed, genomics, synthetic biology, and nanotechnology have the potential to improve and lengthen life for all humans, they also enable biological weapons that can destroy wide swaths of humanity or attack specific groups of individuals. This confluence of technology is advancing at exponential rates and seems to have the advantage over the limited detection, protection, and treatment capabilities offered by a lumbering bureaucracy |
| Analysis |
Civil Defense, Unconventional Warfare |
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BIOTERRORISM, CHEMICAL ELEMENTS, GENOMICS, NANOTECHNOLOGY, PROTECTION, SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY, THREATS |
| Notes |
"October 2012." |
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At head of title: Air War College, Air University |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 29-31) |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (DTIC, viewed on September 4, 2015) |
| Subject |
Biological weapons.
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Life scientists -- Professional ethics
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Biosecurity.
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Bioterrorism -- Prevention
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Hazardous substances -- Risk assessment.
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Hazardous substances -- Risk assessment
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Biological weapons
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Biosecurity
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Bioterrorism -- Prevention
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Air University (U.S.). Air War College, issuing body.
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