Dual-use technologies

For a fuller discussion of Britain s discovery of VX see, Caitriona McLeish, The Governance of Dual-Use Technologies in Chemical Warfare, MSc Dissertation, SPRU, University of Sussex (1997), especially pp. 50-58. 

The genomic revolution requires scientists to follow a recognised Code of Conduct. The dual-use technology dilemma implicates issues further good scientific inventions can be reapplied along a sinister vector. 

Much the same was true with propellant. In Germany, the private NC producers, with their dual-use technologies, accrued advantages in increased output and overall efficiency. Having to produce for a commercial market evidently helped... 

As a result of munitions production, the leading dye companies sales and profits, which dropped in 1914-15, now far exceeded pre-war levels. Even so, the firms would no doubt have gladly reconverted to peacetime production, had the war ended in 1916. Yet as with the Leuna project, military contracts led the dye industry to institutionalize their dual-use technologies and to accept the likelihood of mobilizing... 

Werner, D.H. 1994. Fractal radiators. In Proceedings of IEEE Dual-Use Technologies Applications Conference, Vol. I, pp. 478-482. 4th Annual IEEE Mohawk Valley Section, SUNY InsL of Technology at Utica/Rome, New York. 

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