Ethics in the Open Air

Image 31. Senior staff of the Biology Department, Porton Down, October 1943 

Source University of Sussex, SHIP Hie, H6.4, Morton Papers, MRE Swimming Pool (no date). 

Source IWM, Photographic Collection, Destruction ofMustard by Burning, 6 March 1955. Imperial War Museums (F 566/4). 

In the early 1950s, in response to an expanded US biological weapons programme, Porton initiated a series of short- and long-range sea trials near the Isle of Lewis (Outer Hebrides) in Operation Cauldron—in reference to the successful wartime commando raid—and Operation Hesperus. Cauldron required 158 members of staff, and Hesperus employed a total of 

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First, the delivery of any such potential Biotechnological Revolution in agriculture lies squarely in the domain of Chemical Engineering. Second, in tomorrow s world we cannot leave all the issues to science and technology the social/ethical/political questions will need full and open airing. 

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