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The point is, members of RAC, advisors to RAC, other prominent scientists 
and military experts agree that experiments like the proposed Shiga experi- 
ment being considered today are technologies "with potential military 
application or weapons systems applications" and therefore are subject to 
section 36 (a)(3) of the Arms Control and Disarmament Act. It is my 
understanding that the DOD and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency 
are in non-compliance with this act in regard to the Shiga experiment and 
other biological experiments involving recombinant DNA technology. There- 
fore, it would be improper for the RAC to consider this proposed experiment 
to clone a Shiga toxin until such time as a weapons impact statement cover- 
ing this experiment and or the category of experiments it is part of, is 
forthcoming from the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. 
Moreover, I would remind this committee that in authorizing this and other 
related DOD experiments involving DNA technology and toxins it is, 
defacto, acting in complicity with the Arms Control and Disarmament 
Agency in violation of section 36 of the Arms Control and Disarmament Act 
which requires a weapons impact statement for the development of any 
technology with "potential military applications." I should also remind the 
committee that if this experiment or any other experiment authorized by 
RAC is later modified and used for the specific purpose of developing and 
employing biological warfare weapons, each member of this committee 
would be personally liable under international law and the principles 
enunciated at Nuremberg in aiding in the commission of a crime against 
humanity. 
It will not suffice for members of this committee to wash their hands of any 
responsibility for how the knowledge gained in these types of experiments 
will be subsequently used. In authorizing the Shiga experiment and other 
similar experiments, this committee becomes an active participant in the 
final uses to which this work is put. 
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