Source: The Conversation
From bioweapons to super soldiers: how the UK is joining the genomic technology arms race
April 30, 2021
The UK government recently announced an £800 million, taxpayer-funded Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria). The brainchild of the British prime minister’s former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings and modeled on the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Darpa, the organisation will focus partly on genomic research.
Genome technology is becoming an increasingly important part of military research. So given that the UK boasts some of the best genomic research centres in the world, how will its new agency affect the wider genome technology warfare race?
In 2019, Darpa announced that it wishes to explore genetically editing soldiers. It has also invested over US$65 million (£45 million) to improve the safety and accuracy of genome-editing technologies. These include the famous Nobel prize-winning Crispr-Cas molecular scissor – a tool that can edit DNA by cutting and pasting sections of it.
But the ease of accessibility and low cost of Crispr-based technologies has caused concern around potential military genetic modification and weaponisation of viruses or bacteria. These include smallpox or tuberculosis, and could be extremely destructive.
The US is not alone in its military pursuit of genome technology. Russia and China have either stated or been accused of using genomic technology to enhance military capabilities.
The super soldier
Universal Soldier and Captain America are just a few Hollywood movies that have explored the concept of the super soldier. Despite its sci-fi nature, several countries are looking to explore the potential of such prospects. Darpa intends to explore genetically editing soldiers to turn them into "antibody factories", making them resistant to chemical or biological attacks.
In December 2020, the then US director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, said there was evidence that the Chinese military was conducting human experimentation in an attempt to biologically boost soldiers. This followed a report by the Jamestown policy think tank that highlighted reports suggesting that Crispr would form a keystone technology in China to "boost troops' combat effectiveness". No further details were given, however.
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Editor's note: What many Americans are not aware of is how the US military is heavily into testing steroids and human growth hormone (HGH) drugs but they cannot do it on the books. Like all those muscled Navy SEALs and PMC's running around on meth and steroids and full of human growth hormone (HGH). Every once in a while an article appears discussing it so you should likely figure it's going on experimentally and largely unknown. The experimental human growth hormone drugs likely come out of Bethesda Naval Hospital from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) where they are introduced into the body building scene for experimentation. PMC's, special forces all on steroids, coke and HGH and sexual deviancy? It was Ameen Alai who is known as "the Guru" who it is some suggest pioneered Human Growth Hormone experiments on body builders. Where science meets your physique, or would it be where HGH meets your physique? Alai himself is a bodybuilder. Alai was allegedly friends with the senior chief of military medicine at Bethesda Naval Hospital located right across the street from the National Institute of Health. He was given huge quantities of HGH by the senior chief and asked to find out what it did and how best to use it. Ameen Alai makes startling admissions in a clip where he discusses human growth hormone and Bethesda Naval Hospital.
Blame enemy hierarchies of the very same thing you are doing...the arms race brings out the very best in humanity doesn't it? Yes, our marketing slogan is "we're bold, innovative and bipartisan." Watch for this stuff to be introduced through Hollywood before Hollywood self-destructs. In that case maybe the Pentagon will go into the movie making business. An info commercial for technologically upgrading the military. What else is the Pentagon into? Selling lesbianism.
China's "mutant soldiers":
Russia's Vladimir Putin on messing around with genomics:
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