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Episode 183: Ukraine, Bioweapons & Adrenochrome

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Project Jefferson

The book germs also describes a covert investigation by the defense threat reduction agency designed to build a germ weapon factory. Pentagon lawyers reportedly reviewed the project and ruled that no harmful biological agents were being produced, and therefore it was permitted by the treaty. Even one gram of anthrax is a large quantity, capable of infecting thousands of people if a suitable dried spore preparation is made. And yet these sorts of projects illustrate what is known as the dual use dilemma in biotechnology research: valuable information could be misused for illicit purposes.

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