Neuroscience and the Problem of Dual Use
Neuroscience and the Problem of Dual Use
This lecture aims to give an introduction and overview of the dual-use challenge as it applies to neuroscience today and will apply in coming decades.
Topics covered in this lesson
- Introduction and overview of the dual-use challenge as it applies to neuroscience
- How the threat of chemical and biological weapons developed in the last century
- How benignly-intended civil science was taken up in the production of chemical and biological weapons that attacked the nervous system in the last century
- How the States Parties to the BTWC and the CWC have responded to this possible misuse of neuroscience
- Problem of awareness-raising amongst neuroscientists
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