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After listening to Meselson inveigh against biological warfare, one wonders how anyone anywhere could be in favor of it. Meselson says it is militarily inconvenient, socially disastrous, and no more humane than any other form...
...group of American scientists--led by two Harvard professors--is trying to convince President Johnson to abandon the project. Matthew S. Meselson, professor of Biology, and Dr. John T. Edsall, professor of Biological Chemistry, have collected the signatures of over 5000 scientists in support of a letter to Johnson asking him to stop using these weapons in Vietnam, and to "categorically declare the intention of the U.S. to refrain from initiating the use" of them in the future...
Matthew S. Meselson, Professor of Biology, said last night that present U.S. policy towards biological and chemical warfare is one which can only stimulate other countries to develop their own chemical and biological weapons...
...Meselson's argument was that small-scale use of B. and C. weapons (the lines between the two are blurred) quite conceivably could escalate into large-scale disastrous biological warfare...
Therefore, Meselson maintained, the United Staets, which spends about $200 million yearly on such weapons development, should do what it can to propagate a disdain" for biological and chemical warfare research...