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Film sheds light on shadowy world of germ warfare http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1238258130
One of the things that I found out was that this world of biological weapons research was really shrouded in secrecy, and there's all these skeletons in the closet that go back decades -- human experimentation, secret programs, illicit programs. And it's not just in the United States -- the U.K., Russia, my home continent of Africa -- Zimbabwe, South Africa.... [T]he United States government has budgeted more than $50 billion US on biodefence, and a lot of that money is now going to private companies, to private foundations, to university labs... One of the scary things about biological weapons is that even if you're working on biodefence, you still have to create the actual weapon to know how to defend against it so you have a very, very blurry line between what is biodefence and what is bio-offence. And we must remember that ... offensive biological weapons have been illegal under the Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention that has been signed by more than 170 countries [in] 1972. They've been outlawed.
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