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That Wonderful Year: Smallpox, Genetic Engineering, And Bio-Terrorism, David A. Koplow
That Wonderful Year: Smallpox, Genetic Engineering, And Bio-Terrorism, David A. Koplow
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The thesis of this Article is that the United States, Russia, and by extension, the world as a whole, are pursuing a fundamentally sound strategy in retaining, rather than destroying, the last known remaining samples of the variola virus. For now, those samples are housed in secure, deep-freeze storage at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia and at the comparable Russian facility, known as Vector, near Novosibirsk, Siberia. But that basic decision is about the only correct move we are making at this time - and even it is animated by fundamental misapprehensions about …