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...matter.” Some of his colleagues bet there was a 99 percent likelihood of discovering weapons, Allison said. He remembers only one colleague who said there was zero chance that anyone would find chemical or biological weapons in Iraq: Molecular and Cellular Biology professor Matthew S. Meselson. Meselson did not return a request for comment. NOT QUITE ‘VINDICATED’Unlike most of his Belfer Center colleagues, Ashton B. Carter had already seen all the cards the Bush administration was holding. A former assistant secretary of defense for international security policy in the Clinton administration...
...Meselson went on to the California Institute of Technology, where he performed the famous Meselson-Stahl experiment, and later to Harvard...
...Meselson left his mark on weapons of mass destruction by contributing to President Richard Nixon’s biological weapons policy, an opportunity he came upon through a Harvard connection...
Henry A. Kissinger ’50 had worked in Harvard’s Government Department before becoming Nixon’s Secretary of State, and Meselson said the two had been “very close.” After he became Secretary of State, Kissinger asked Meselson to write several papers on the effects of biological weapons, which led soon after to a 1969 ban that ended the U.S. biological weapons program...
...Meselson and his lab are trying to understand why sex exists by studying small asexual animals called rotifers. “It’s not clear why there have to be males,” he said...