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For that reason, I urge this committee to place a moratorium on all further 
authorizations of DOD related toxin experiments until such time as this 
committee engages in a full dialogue with all other interested agencies in 
the Executive and Congressional branches relative to the potential uses of 
this technology for biological warfare purposes. 
According to the National Science Foundation, expenditures on all biological 
research by the DOD have increased 54% since 1980 reaching $100 million in 
1983. I urge everyone on this committee to peruse the annual reports on 
Biological Programs submitted to Congress by the military from 1980 to 
1983. I believe that many members of this committee might well entertain 
second thoughts about the long term potential use and abuse of DNA exper- 
imentation upon close reading of the mushrooming number of so-called "de- 
fensive" programs being launched by the various military branches. 
The fact is, we have known for several years now that recombinant DNA 
technology is a powerful tool: one that could be used for mass destructive 
purposes. As far back as 1976, the Federation of American Scientists Public 
Interest Report stated: 
Few doubt that this technology has the potential for deliberate 
misuse to produce great dangers. Genes from disease causing 
(pathogenic) organisms, or from organisms that produce highly 
toxic agents, could be implanted in hosts capable of rapid 
spread, so as to produce dramatic new biological dangers. ..The 
world must begin to face a biological proliferation threat that 
might, before long, rival that of nuclear weapons. 
All of these warning signals suggest that a full review of DOD experiments 
using recombinant DNA technology is in order. I hope this committee will 
take the opportunity today to halt all further involvement with DOD related 
experiments in this field pending an arms control weapons impact study 
(ACIS) and a thorough review by the RAC and NIH of the degree to which it 
would like to be involved in the process of authorizing experiments like the 
cloning of Shiga toxin. 
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