Biotechnologie und Militär: Perspektiven des Biowaffen-Verbots

In: Prokla: Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft, Volume 32, Issue 127, p. 247-270

Abstract

All major technologies have been exploited not just for peaceful, but also for hostile purposes. Biotechnology constitutes an exception. At the time when the biotech revolution began in the early 1970s, states agreed to ban biological weapons from their arsenals. This ban, however, has been weakened over the last 15 years. This article describes this process and the efforts to reverse it.