Residential College 
East Qiudran^ 
The University of Michigan 
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 
(313)763-0176 
June 16, 1982 
Dr. William Gartland 
Office of Recombinant DNA Activities 
Building 31, Room 4A52 
National Institutes of Health 
Bethesda, MD 20205 
Dear Bill; 
I strongly support the amendment to prohibit the development 
of biological weapons submitted by Richard Novick and Richard Goldstein. 
It seems entirely appropriate that the RAC should address this issue 
and provide its advice to the NIH Director since the committee is 
charged with providing safeguards against the hazards of recombinant 
DNA technology. As Novick and Goldstein point out, the most serious 
biohazards will derive from the deliberate construction of biological 
weapons . 
I would also like to know whether Department of Defense projects 
are registered with ORDA at this time. If so, could you provide the 
RAC and those on the ORDA mailing list with details of these projects 
(i.e. names of principle investigator and university; name of the division 
of the Department of Defense funding the project; amount funded; 
purpose of project; host-vector system). 
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