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Nature 420, 605 (12 December 2002) | doi:10.1038/420605a

Isolationism is not the answer to bioterrorism

Jerome A. Singh1,2 & Peter A. Singer2

  1. Howard College School of Law, University of Natal, Durban, 4041, South Africa
  2. University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, 88 College Street, Toronto M5G 1L4, Canada
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Increased support for research in the developing world would be a better strategy.

It has been suggested that the best way for the United States to keep biotechnology-enhanced biological weapons away from terrorist groups is for it to support related research and training only for US scientists (see, for example, Nature 414, 3–4; 200110.1038/35102219).